Not exact matches
The project team conducted site visits to
child welfare agencies to talk with agency administrators, supervisors, and
workers, among others, regarding the issue of over-representation, and to
find out more about the types of programs, practices, and strategies that are being implemented to meet the needs of
children and families of color, particularly African - American
children and families.
These
findings approximate those of the more recent National Survey of
Child and Adolescent Well - Being (NSCAW) that 20 percent of children in an investigation for abuse and neglect had a mother who, by either the child welfare worker's or mother's account, was involved with drugs or alcohol; that figure rises to 42 percent for children who are placed into foster care.7 These studies have clearly established a positive relationship between a caregiver's substance abuse and child maltreatment among children in out - of - home care and among children in the general popula
Child and Adolescent Well - Being (NSCAW) that 20 percent of
children in an investigation for abuse and neglect had a mother who, by either the
child welfare worker's or mother's account, was involved with drugs or alcohol; that figure rises to 42 percent for children who are placed into foster care.7 These studies have clearly established a positive relationship between a caregiver's substance abuse and child maltreatment among children in out - of - home care and among children in the general popula
child welfare worker's or mother's account, was involved with drugs or alcohol; that figure rises to 42 percent for
children who are placed into foster care.7 These studies have clearly established a positive relationship between a caregiver's substance abuse and
child maltreatment among children in out - of - home care and among children in the general popula
child maltreatment among
children in out - of - home care and among
children in the general population.
Key Strategies to Educate Public
Child Welfare Workers and Improve Child Welfare Systems Zlotnik, McCarthy, & Briar - Lawson Evaluation Exchange, 11 (4), 2006 Reviews research and evaluation findings on public agency - university partnerships to educate public child welfare workers and the impact of such partnerships on workforce reten
Child Welfare Workers and Improve Child Welfare Systems Zlotnik, McCarthy, & Briar - Lawson Evaluation Exchange, 11 (4), 2006 Reviews research and evaluation findings on public agency - university partnerships to educate public child welfare workers and the impact of such partnerships on workforce ret
Workers and Improve
Child Welfare Systems Zlotnik, McCarthy, & Briar - Lawson Evaluation Exchange, 11 (4), 2006 Reviews research and evaluation findings on public agency - university partnerships to educate public child welfare workers and the impact of such partnerships on workforce reten
Child Welfare Systems Zlotnik, McCarthy, & Briar - Lawson Evaluation Exchange, 11 (4), 2006 Reviews research and evaluation
findings on public agency - university partnerships to educate public
child welfare workers and the impact of such partnerships on workforce reten
child welfare workers and the impact of such partnerships on workforce ret
workers and the impact of such partnerships on workforce retention.
Substance Use, The Opioid Epidemic and the
Child Welfare Sytem: Key Findings From a Mixed Methods Study Office of the Assistane Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (2018) Analyzes the connection between parental substance use and the increased caseloads for child welfare wor
Child Welfare Sytem: Key
Findings From a Mixed Methods Study Office of the Assistane Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (2018) Analyzes the connection between parental substance use and the increased caseloads for
child welfare wor
child welfare workers.
Substance Use, The Opioid Epidemic and the
Child Welfare System: Key Findings From a Mixed Methods Study Office of the Assistane Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (2018) Analyzes the connection between parental substance use and the increased caseloads for child welfare wor
Child Welfare System: Key
Findings From a Mixed Methods Study Office of the Assistane Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (2018) Analyzes the connection between parental substance use and the increased caseloads for
child welfare wor
child welfare workers.
Organizational Supports for
Child Welfare Social Workers Experiencing Secondary Traumatic Stress (PDF - 2,406 KB) McGuiness (2015) California State University Presents the findings of a study to identify what agency support and resources are available to child welfare social workers who experience secondary traumatic st
Child Welfare Social
Workers Experiencing Secondary Traumatic Stress (PDF - 2,406 KB) McGuiness (2015) California State University Presents the findings of a study to identify what agency support and resources are available to child welfare social workers who experience secondary traumatic
Workers Experiencing Secondary Traumatic Stress (PDF - 2,406 KB) McGuiness (2015) California State University Presents the
findings of a study to identify what agency support and resources are available to
child welfare social workers who experience secondary traumatic st
child welfare social
workers who experience secondary traumatic
workers who experience secondary traumatic stress.
Implementation of a Workforce Initiative to Build Trauma - informed
Child Welfare Practice and Services: Findings from the Massachusetts Child Trauma Project (PDF - 296 KB) Fraser, Griffin, Barto, Lo, Wenz - Gross, Spinazzola, Bodian, Nisenbaum, & Bartlett (2014) Children and Youth Services Review, 44 Describes the development and implementation of the Massachusetts Child Trauma Project (MCTP), a statewide initiative to enhance the capacity of child welfare workers and child mental health providers to identify, respond, and intervene early and effectively with children traumatized by chronic loss, abuse, neglect, and viol
Child Welfare Practice and Services:
Findings from the Massachusetts
Child Trauma Project (PDF - 296 KB) Fraser, Griffin, Barto, Lo, Wenz - Gross, Spinazzola, Bodian, Nisenbaum, & Bartlett (2014) Children and Youth Services Review, 44 Describes the development and implementation of the Massachusetts Child Trauma Project (MCTP), a statewide initiative to enhance the capacity of child welfare workers and child mental health providers to identify, respond, and intervene early and effectively with children traumatized by chronic loss, abuse, neglect, and viol
Child Trauma Project (PDF - 296 KB) Fraser, Griffin, Barto, Lo, Wenz - Gross, Spinazzola, Bodian, Nisenbaum, & Bartlett (2014)
Children and Youth Services Review, 44 Describes the development and implementation of the Massachusetts Child Trauma Project (MCTP), a statewide initiative to enhance the capacity of child welfare workers and child mental health providers to identify, respond, and intervene early and effectively with children traumatized by chronic loss, abuse, neglect, and v
Children and Youth Services Review, 44 Describes the development and implementation of the Massachusetts
Child Trauma Project (MCTP), a statewide initiative to enhance the capacity of child welfare workers and child mental health providers to identify, respond, and intervene early and effectively with children traumatized by chronic loss, abuse, neglect, and viol
Child Trauma Project (MCTP), a statewide initiative to enhance the capacity of
child welfare workers and child mental health providers to identify, respond, and intervene early and effectively with children traumatized by chronic loss, abuse, neglect, and viol
child welfare workers and
child mental health providers to identify, respond, and intervene early and effectively with children traumatized by chronic loss, abuse, neglect, and viol
child mental health providers to identify, respond, and intervene early and effectively with
children traumatized by chronic loss, abuse, neglect, and v
children traumatized by chronic loss, abuse, neglect, and violence.
Additionally, one study
found that the duration and amount of contact families had with
child welfare workers were positively related to reunification.21 Although other factors may be at work in this dynamic, it appears that continued and consistent interaction between reunified families and social
workers may facilitate the reunification process.
Child welfare workers understand that an inability to address these matters seriously hampers their efforts to maintain
children in their homes, successfully return
children from foster care, or
find effective permanent alternatives through Adoption and Legal Guardianship.
I
found them among my coworkers, clients, and patients, while working as a clinical social
worker in
child welfare, alcoholism treatment, and psychiatry settings.