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Reviews and Recommendations for Child Welfare Reform
Reviews of challenges and innovations in child welfare and recommendations for reforming the child welfare system.
Child Welfare Summit: Looking to the Future: An Examination of the State of Child Welfare and Recommendations for Action (PDF - 479 KB)
Center for the Study of Social Policy & Center for Community Partnerships in Child Welfare (2003)
Summarizes the findings of a summit on child welfare reform to identify current challenges and review promising solutions that will ensure safety and permanency for children.
Community Organization of Services to Deal With and End Child Abuse
Chadwick (2002)
In The APSAC Handbook on Child Maltreatment (2nd ed.)
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Describes the National Call to Action to End Child Abuse, which endeavors to end child abuse within 20 years.
Crossroads: New Directions in Social Policy
American Public Human Services Association (2001)
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Identifies Federal policies and programs, including those related to child welfare, that should be modified to improve States' ability to meet the needs of poor families more effectively.
CWLA 2005 Legislative Agenda/Priorities
Child Welfare League of America (2005)
Outlines CWLA's legislative agenda and priorities for children's issues for 2005.
Innovations in Child Welfare From Across America: A Special Report by the Editor of Child Protection Report
Child Protection Report (2004)
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Describes innovative approaches to address housing, health care, court procedures, childcare, and mental health care for children and families.
Innovative Practices With Vulnerable Children and Families
Sallee, Lawson, & Briar-Lawson (Eds.) (2001)
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Provides an overview of systems changes that will improve the effectiveness of child welfare services.
Reforming the Child Welfare System: Competing Paradigms of Change
Cohen
Children and Youth Services Review, 27(6), 2005
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Identifies four traditions of social planning and social change and relates them to approaches to reforming child welfare.
Resident Engagement and Leadership to Improve Results for Children and Youth, Families and Communities: An International Toolkit (PDF - 1200 KB)
Center for the Study of Social Policy International Initiative for Children, Youth, and Families (2004)
Describes efforts to involve community members in child welfare projects all over the world.
What Hurts and What Helps: Listening to Families to Build 21st Century Child Welfare Reforms
Briar-Lawson & Wiesen (2001)
In Innovative Practices With Vulnerable Children and Families
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Highlights lessons learned about services for families to be considered in developing child welfare reforms for the 21st century.
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