Empowering families to take leadership roles and contribute to decision - making and program planning is key to ensuring
that child welfare system reform efforts will ultimately improve outcomes for the children and families being served.
In addition, an aspect of various
child welfare system reform initiatives is supporting the system's infrastructure to be able to implement fairly global policy changes (e.g. Family to Family program, Families for Kids program, public - private partnerships).
Not exact matches
At the same time, large - scale
reforms to the health, education and
welfare systems — along with reductions in youth service provision and the number and services of
children's centres — means confusion and real concern for professionals and families alike.
Elisa's death on Thanksgiving weekend in 1995 attracted broad attention — prompting a national conversation about
child abuse, a wave of
reforms to the city's
child welfare system, and a
child welfare law named in her honor.
Always rooted in the wisdom of frontline poverty - fighters this year's published research includes the importance of the earliest years for
child development, the breakdown of
systems for
children - in - care, Britain's asylum shambles, social housing and
welfare reform.
During discussions a delegate posed the question: «Why have we discussed
reform of the
welfare system, strategies to get adults into work and the implications of Universal Credit for adult incomes, but we have somehow managed not to talk about
children?»
What is the impact of systematic
reforms and their resulting practices on racial disproportionality in the
child welfare system?
Much of [the] Center for the Study of Social Policy's
system reform work focuses on improving how public
child welfare systems and its partners address the safety, permanency and well - being needs of the
children, youth, and families that they serve.
Welfare reform has disrupted Medicaid benefits for millions of
children who need treatment.97, 98 Medicaid enables many youth to receive psychiatric treatment.99 Many parents who left welfare to go to work found their new jobs did not provide insurance or, when available, they could not afford copayments.100, 101 The State Children's Health Insurance Program, designed to offset the loss of Medicaid, did not fulfill its intended purpose.98, 102 Moreover, welfare reform has not substantially decreased poverty103; many poor children have become even poorer.104 Poor children are vulnerable to poor outcomes, 105 including involvement with the juvenile justice
children who need treatment.97, 98 Medicaid enables many youth to receive psychiatric treatment.99 Many parents who left
welfare to go to work found their new jobs did not provide insurance or, when available, they could not afford copayments.100, 101 The State
Children's Health Insurance Program, designed to offset the loss of Medicaid, did not fulfill its intended purpose.98, 102 Moreover, welfare reform has not substantially decreased poverty103; many poor children have become even poorer.104 Poor children are vulnerable to poor outcomes, 105 including involvement with the juvenile justice
Children's Health Insurance Program, designed to offset the loss of Medicaid, did not fulfill its intended purpose.98, 102 Moreover,
welfare reform has not substantially decreased poverty103; many poor
children have become even poorer.104 Poor children are vulnerable to poor outcomes, 105 including involvement with the juvenile justice
children have become even poorer.104 Poor
children are vulnerable to poor outcomes, 105 including involvement with the juvenile justice
children are vulnerable to poor outcomes, 105 including involvement with the juvenile justice
system.
King County
System Integration Initiative:
Reform to Impact Dual Jurisdiction Youth and Families (PDF - 800 KB)
Child Welfare League of America The Link: Connecting Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare, 4 (2), 2005 Outline the goals of KC - SII, the scope of the project, mobilization and planning, data collection and analysis, resource assessment and inventory, action strategy development, and implementation to improve the coordination and integration of the child welfare and juvenile justice programs and policy development in King County
Child Welfare League of America The Link: Connecting Juvenile Justice and
Child Welfare, 4 (2), 2005 Outline the goals of KC - SII, the scope of the project, mobilization and planning, data collection and analysis, resource assessment and inventory, action strategy development, and implementation to improve the coordination and integration of the child welfare and juvenile justice programs and policy development in King County
Child Welfare, 4 (2), 2005 Outline the goals of KC - SII, the scope of the project, mobilization and planning, data collection and analysis, resource assessment and inventory, action strategy development, and implementation to improve the coordination and integration of the
child welfare and juvenile justice programs and policy development in King County
child welfare and juvenile justice programs and policy development in King County, WA.
Improving the Performance and Outcomes of
Child Welfare Through State Program Improvement Plans (PIPS): The Real Opportunity of the Child and Family Services Review (PDF - 300 KB) Center for the Study of Social Policy (2003) Encourages States to consider the CFSR process as an opportunity to reform child welfare systems by outlining principles for improvement and examining the important components of
Child Welfare Through State Program Improvement Plans (PIPS): The Real Opportunity of the
Child and Family Services Review (PDF - 300 KB) Center for the Study of Social Policy (2003) Encourages States to consider the CFSR process as an opportunity to reform child welfare systems by outlining principles for improvement and examining the important components of
Child and Family Services Review (PDF - 300 KB) Center for the Study of Social Policy (2003) Encourages States to consider the CFSR process as an opportunity to
reform child welfare systems by outlining principles for improvement and examining the important components of
child welfare systems by outlining principles for improvement and examining the important components of PIPs.
Reform of
child welfare systems, policies and practices (including
child protection and the care
system)
«The tax credit and
welfare reforms are potentially disastrous for kinship carer households and will deter many potential kinship carers from coming forward, resulting in more
children ending up in the care
system, at significant cost to the public purse.
Gail Barber is a consultant in private practice, providing technical assistance and consultation on
system reform addressing
child welfare cases involving parental substance abuse leading to involvement with the courts.
«We need to be confident that
reforms to our
child welfare system, fully explore and support the
child living safely with their parents or wider family at the outset, and that the drive for speeding up decision making is not at the expense of the right placement for the
child.»
Placing prevention on the
child welfare agenda: Realizing
system reform.
Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study evaluated the effectiveness of a
system - wide
reform effort to implement trauma - informed care, Trauma
Systems Therapy (TST), across a large, private
child welfare system.
There are a range of programs, strategies and
system reform approaches intended to prevent
children from being abused or neglected or involved in the
child welfare system, and to help keep
children who have been abused or neglected safely with their own families or in other permanent families, through kinship care or adoption, and on a path to productive adulthood.
This section addresses
child welfare agency administration and management, ethical practice, program evaluation, disaster preparedness, funding, information
systems and data, practice improvement, supervision,
system reform, training, and strategies to strengthen the
child welfare workforce.
Under legislation passed in August 2007, the government initiated a range of sweeping changes: health checks for all Aboriginal
children; widespread alcohol restrictions;
reforms to
welfare payments; an end to the CDEP scheme; scrapping of the permit
system; increased policing; and acquiring townships under five - year leases.