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Child abuse and neglect is failure by a person with parental or any other protective responsibility to exercise the powers for the intended purpose, which is the benefit of the child. Actions typically include services aimed at supporting at-risk families so they can remain intact to safeguard and promote the welfare of the child, investigation ...
The systemic factors measured by the CFSRs include the effectiveness of the State's systems for child welfare information, case review, and quality assurance; training of child welfare staff, parents, and other stakeholders; the services that support children and families; the agency's responsiveness to the community; and foster and adoptive ...
Lower income families have been disproportionately affected by these increases in child care costs. Working families at or near the poverty line did not receive any or enough child care assistance to be able to stay employed and off welfare, and only 12% to 15% of eligible families were served by a Child Care Development Fund subsidy in 1998 ...
Public health nursing made available through child welfare services in the 1930s. A leader was Dr. Sara Josephine Baker who established many programs to help the poor in New York City keep their infants healthy, leading teams of nurses into the crowded neighborhoods of Hell's Kitchen and teaching mothers how to dress, feed, and bathe their ...
Jeanne M. Giovannoni (1931–2009) was an author, professor, and associate vice chancellor at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Social Welfare. Her research ( and subsequent book, [1] written with Rosina Bercerra) focused on child abuse and how community members, social workers, and law enforcement respond.
David Stoesz (/ s t eɪ s /) is an American academic, policy analyst, author, and social entrepreneur.Stoesz worked as a welfare caseworker and welfare department director and has published about social policy, child welfare, international development, and national politics.
These cities all had populations above 200,000 and were selected for diversity in child support enforcement, labor market conditions, and welfare generosity. Instead of drawing simple random samples directly from the cities' newborn populations, the researchers used a stratified model, first sampling hospitals within each city and then sampling ...
In 2009 , the Bureau held its first Child Welfare Evaluation Summit to explore and promote effective approaches for evaluating child welfare systems, projects, and programs. [ 77 ] In 2010, the Children's Bureau awarded funding to implement the President's Initiative to Reduce Long-Term Foster Care, which seeks to improve outcomes for groups of ...