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The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that coordinates efforts for child welfare in the United States, [1] and provides direct support to agencies that serve children and families. [2]
[2] [3] The Child Welfare Information Gateway covers child-welfare topics, including family-centered practice, child abuse and neglect, abuse and neglect prevention, child protection, family preservation and support, foster care, achieving and maintaining permanency, adoption, management of child welfare agencies and related topics such as ...
Child protective services (CPS) refers to government agencies in the United States that investigate allegations of child abuse or neglect, and if confirmed, intervene by providing services to the family through a safety plan, in-home monitoring, supervision, or if a safety plan is not feasible or in emergencies, removing the child from the custody of their parent or legal guardian.
Nov. 19—It's been years since a series of tragedies exposed Maine's child welfare system as fatally flawed and, despite a lot of attention, no one can say it's any better today. In fact, the ...
Child Welfare: An Africentric Perspective is a 1991 book edited by Sandra Stukes Chipungu, Joyce E. Everett, and Bogart Leashore. The book was reviewed in the Journal of Marriage and Family. [1] The 1994 edition of the book was reviewed in Social Work. [2] It was reviewed in H-Net. [3]
Many children who come to the attention of the child welfare system do so because of situations which are often referred to as child abuse. Abuse typically involves abuse of power, or exercising power for an unintended purpose. [46] [47] This includes willful neglect, knowingly not exercising a power for the purpose for which it was intended ...
The Center for State Child Welfare Data is a platform that enables public sector agencies to store and analyze administrative data related to children placed in out-of-home care. As of 2017, 22 states used the platform, covering about 70% of children in the U.S. in the child welfare system. [citation needed]
Child Maltreatment aims to report current and at-issue scientific information and technical innovations in a form immediately useful to practitioners and researchers from fields such as mental health, child protection, medicine and law. The multidisciplinary journal provides a forum for the discussion on dissemination of research and findings.