Sentences with phrase «charged child welfare agencies»

Overview Recent initiatives at the federal, state, and local levels have charged child welfare agencies with the challenge of better integrating research - based programs and practices into their daily routines.

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Arizona enacted a safe haven law in 2001, which allows desperate parents to avoid charges by leaving their unharmed child at a designated organization — a hospital, fire station, private welfare agency, adoption agency or church — within three days of birth.

One study found considerable variability in the quality of the home environments; higher - quality environments were found with families who had increased economic resources.72 Another study also found variability in the home environments foster children experience and reported that unrelated foster parents had higher - quality home environments than kinship foster parents.73 In this same vein, foster children need caregivers who can work with child welfare agencies to ensure that children's individual needs are met by the child welfare system and other social institutions charged with meeting these needs.

Afterward she worked as the QA supervisor of a statewide contract with a private agency that was charged with recruitment and training of all adoptive families for the State child welfare agency instrumental in developing program policy.