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Restructuring Child Welfare: Analysis of a Controversial Experiment in Florida (Roundtable 6)
Restructuring Child Welfare: Analysis of a
Controversial Experiment in Florida
(Roundtable 6)
In May 1998, the Florida legislature mandated the transfer of responsibility for child protective investigations in three counties from the Department of Children and Families to the Sheriff's Offices in those counties, as well as the statewide privatization of foster care and related services by 2003. Administrative data provided by the Florida Department of Children and Families were used to evaluate both process and outcomes for the four child welfare models operating from 1995 through 2000 in Manatee, Lee, and Sarasota counties. This roundtable describes the context in which this experimental system reform was developed, the parameters of the theoretical debate and legislative history that informed the experiment, the organization and procedural changes that supported the experiment, and outcomes to date.
Susan Kinnevy, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania
School of Social Work
Center for the Study of Youth Policy
3815 Walnut Street
Room 300
Philadelphia, PA 19104
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