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Child Protective Services and Prevention Reform
Resources and information about reform efforts focused on child protective services (CPS), prevention services, or both.
Many reform efforts in these areas focus on the implementation of differential or alternative response systems, which offer a more family-centered, supportive response to concerns about children and families compared to traditional investigative responses.
Building Solutions in Child Protective Services
Berg & Kelly (2000)
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Practical guidelines for implementing a solution-focused, strengths-based approach to child protective services.
Child Protection: New Perspectives for the 21st Century
Ramsey
Family Law Quarterly, 34(3), 2000
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Highlights the failures of recent child welfare reform initiatives and provides an overview of system changes proposed by authors of the journal's articles.
Community Partnerships Offer a Means for Changing Frontline Child Welfare Practice (PDF - 390 KB)
Anderson (Ed.)
SafeKeeping, Spring 2005
Highlights what is needed for child welfare agencies to move a community partnership vision from theory to practice.
Community Partnerships for Protecting Children: Phase II Outcome Evaluation
Daro, Budde, Baker, Nesmith, & Harden (2005)
Findings from an evaluation of the Community Partnerships for Protecting Children initiative, a multisite reform effort to change the structure and focus of child protection efforts, with an emphasis on prevention and community collaboration.
Improving Practice: Child Protection as a Systems Problem
Munro
Children and Youth Services Review, 27(4), 2005
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Asserts that the task of improving CPS should be treated as a systems problem and that a system-focused approach to investigating errors should be adopted.
National Study of Child Protective Services Systems and Reform Efforts
Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (2003)
Study undertaken to describe the status of the CPS system and reform efforts underway around the nation.
Protecting Children in the 21st Century
Waldfogel
Family Law Quarterly, 34(3), 2000
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Why CPS agencies should adopt the differential response model to enable them to individualize services and to establish a community-based system of assistance that includes informal and natural supports.
Protecting the Youngest: The Role of Early Care and Education in Preventing and Responding to Child Maltreatment (PDF - 239 KB)
National Conference of State Legislatures (2007)
Discusses policy options for States to consider to support early care and education programs in protecting young children and preventing abuse and neglect.
Special Focus on the Changing World of Child Protection
Family Support America
America's Family Support Magazine, Summer 2001
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Articles discussing CPS issues, such as the role of parents in child protection, social entrepreneurships, Federal legislation, collaboration between substance abuse treatment and child protection programs, and community partnerships.
Toward a Child-Centered, Neighborhood-Based Child Protection System: A Report of the Consortium on Children, Families, and the Law
Melton, Thompson, & Small (Eds.) (2001)
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Compilation of papers presented at a symposium about CPS system reform.
What We Know and Don't Know About the State of the Child Protective Services System and About the Links Between Poverty and Child Maltreatment
Waldfogel (2000)
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Overview of CPS systems reforms, including the use of differential response.
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