A Practical Guide to the Indian Child Welfare Act National Indian Law Library Explains various components of the Indian Child Welfare Act and
its effect on child welfare practice, including emergency removal, the role of Tribal courts, and foster care placement.
Breakdown has negative
effects on the child welfare system.
Not exact matches
The Nurse - Family Partnership has been studied in three separate randomized controlled trials, which have shown positive
effects on the mothers, including reduced incidence of
child abuse, arrest, and
welfare enrollment.
Legislating love: the
effect of
child support and
welfare policies
on father —
child contact.
Dafoe, who stars as a cranky but compassionate motel manager in Sean Baker's «The Florida Project,» a film that explores the heartbreaking
effects of poverty
on children living in a
welfare motel outside Disney World, poked fun at the gala's run time.
The
effects of
welfare reform
on the academic performance of
children in low - income households
It stresses that improving women's access to forest resources and effectively including them in decision making leads to greater investment in
children's
welfare and has positive
effects on economic growth and sustainable resource management.
On the other hand the
welfare checklist contains six other factors to be taken into account including: l the
child's needs; l the likely
effect of any change; l any harm which the
child has suffered or is likely to suffer; and l how capable each of the
child's parents is in meeting the
child's needs.
Although relationship science has shown that relationship health is as real as mental and physical health (and relationship health has powerful
effects on our mental and physical health as well as the health and
welfare of our
children), relationship healthcare remains decades behind dental and physical healthcare.
It has to follow the «
welfare checklist», which covers lots of points including the
child's wishes and feelings, their needs and the likely
effect on the
child of any change in circumstances.
Despite this perceived benefit, many
child welfare practitioners articulated that this policy might have harmful
effects on children of color, a position that reflects findings from other studies (e.g. Carter - Black, 2002).
Although there is limited research
on the
effects of an individualized, strengths - based approach
on child and family outcomes for the population of
child welfare clients, prior studies of other service recipients (e.g., early intervention, mental health, elderly services) have found that a family - centered, strengths - based approach is associated with increased service engagement (Green et al., 2004; Shireman, 1998), increased parenting competency (Green et al., 2004; Whitley, 1999), and enhanced interaction among family members (Green et al., 2004; Huebner, Jones, Miller, Custer, & Critchfield, 2006).
Experimental manipulations of income among families, such as conditional cash transfer or
welfare - to - work programs are important approaches to study the
effect of income
on child development, as such programs often increase total income for families at or below the federal poverty line.
There were no statistically significant program
effects for the nurses
on women's use of ancillary prenatal services, educational achievement, use of
welfare, or their
children's temperament or behavior problems.
If anything, the move towards a family preservation philosophy had a detrimental
effect on children and families involved with the
child welfare system.
Parental mental illness Relatively little has been written about the
effect of serious and persistent parental mental illness
on child abuse, although many studies show that substantial proportions of mentally ill mothers are living away from their
children.14 Much of the discussion about the
effect of maternal mental illness
on child abuse focuses
on the poverty and homeless - ness of mothers who are mentally ill, as well as
on the behavior problems of their
children — all issues that are correlated with involvement with
child welfare services.15 Jennifer Culhane and her colleagues followed a five - year birth cohort among women who had ever been homeless and found an elevated rate of involvement with
child welfare services and a nearly seven - times - higher rate of having
children placed into foster care.16 More direct evidence
on the relationship between maternal mental illness and
child abuse in the general population, however, is strikingly scarce, especially given the 23 percent rate of self - reported major depression in the previous twelve months among mothers involved with
child welfare services, as shown in NSCAW.17
There were no significant nurse
effects on women's use of ancillary services during pregnancy, educational achievement, use of
welfare, or their
children's temperament or behavior problems.
The key finding in this research is that
welfare and employment programs that increase parental employment and income had small and consistently positive
effects on the developmental outcomes of
children who were preschool - and elementary school - aged at study entry.
The
effect of home visiting programs
on mothers» life - course (subsequent pregnancies, education, employment, and use of
welfare) is disappointing overall.10 In the trial of the nurse home visitor program described above, there were enduring
effects of the program 15 years after birth of the first
child on maternal life - course outcomes (e.g., interpregnancy intervals, use of
welfare, behavioural problems due to women's use of drugs and alcohol, and arrests among women who were low - income and unmarried at registration).21 The
effects of this program
on maternal life - course have been replicated in separate trials with urban African - Americans20, 23,24 and with Hispanics.18
These findings suggest that
welfare policies that increase employment, but do not affect income, have few
effects on young
children.
Morris, et al. synthesized the results of five large - scale studies that together examined
effects on children of 11 different employment - based
welfare and anti-poverty programs aimed primarily at single - parent, mother - only families.3 The focus was
on identifying the program features that are associated with
effects on children's school achievement, social behaviour, and health.
The horrible
effects on children that some expected as a consequence of
welfare reform did not occur but neither are there consistent positive
effects.
More research
on the
effects of
welfare policies
on children across their developmental stages would help inform policy - makers as they grapple with how to balance budgets and provide a cohesive and comprehensive social safety net for low - income families.
I continue to be impressed by how relatively brief interventions by family mediators can have a significant and lasting
effect on the relationship between separated couples and
on the
welfare of their
children.
We estimated models by using dependent variables previously associated with significant treatment
effects in the follow - up study.10, 20 These included life - course outcomes for the mother, such as number of subsequent
children, months
on welfare, impairments due to substance use, and number of arrests, as well as life - course outcomes for the study
children, such as number of runaway episodes and number of arrests or convictions.
This occurred even though these
children's mothers showed almost none of the postnatal benefits observed for those visited during pregnancy and infancy (such as reduced
welfare dependence, substance abuse, criminal behavior, and
child abuse and neglect).8 The mechanisms through which these beneficial
effects occurred will be examined in future reports, with a focus
on the alteration of maternal prenatal health and the
children's corresponding neuropsychological functioning, 22,23 as well as prenatal stress, given that stress during pregnancy affects the social and neuromotor development of nonhuman primates.24, 25
The latest research synthesis from the Next Generation project takes a closer look at troubling findings regarding the
effects of
welfare and work programs
on the teenaged
children of program enrollees.
USC - ATTC trains clinicians and disseminate information throughout the United States
on the evaluation and treatment of complex trauma
effects — including substance abuse — in multiply - traumatized, socially marginalized adolescents who come in contact with mental health, substance abuse,
child welfare, and juvenile justice environments.
In each site, the key component of the evaluation was an impact analysis that used a rigorous research design to measure the programs»
effects on outcomes, including employment,
welfare use, and
child well - being.
Analysis showed no program
effects on accessibility, engagement in parenting activities, or sharing responsibility for the
child's
welfare.
Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study examines the
effects of the Design Team intervention
on intention to leave
child welfare.
Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study evaluated the effectiveness of the Step - by - Step Parenting Skills Program to carry out a task analysis of basic childcare skills (feeding and bathing); to conduct thorough behavioral assessments of young, vulnerable, single parents; to use modeling, feedback and reinforcement procedures to increase basic childcare skills; and to assess the
effect of childcare skill training
on the
child's
welfare.
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the costs and
effects of a federally funded implementation of the Strengthening Families Program (SFP)
on time to reunification with a substance - involved
child welfare population.
With so much evidence pointing to the harmful
effects of divorce
on children, unhappily married parents may wonder whether it's best to stay in a truly miserable and undeniably hopeless marriage for their
children's
welfare.
This bulletin summarizes the
effects of early trauma
on brain development and looks at steps
child welfare professionals can take to screen for developmental delays and identify the trauma - affected
children and youth in their care.
Dr. Fisher's work
on children in foster care and the
child welfare system includes (a) basic research characterizing the
effects of early stress
on neurobiological systems such as the HPA axis and areas of the prefrontal cortex involved in executive functioning; (b) the development of preventive interventions, including the Treatment Foster Care of Oregon Program for Preschoolers (TFCO - P) and the Kids in Transition to School Program (KITS); and (c) the dissemination of evidence - based practice in community settings.
This bulletin discusses the extent of the overlap between domestic violence and
child welfare, some of the
effects of domestic violence
on child witnesses, and the trend toward a more collaborative, communitywide response to the issue.
To the extent that the legislature hoped to resolve concerns about the joint custody presumption's adverse
effects on the
welfare of
children by authorizing representation for them, it missed its mark by not appropriating funding to pay for it.
Summarizes the
effects of early trauma
on brain development and steps
child welfare professionals can take to screen for developmental delays and identify the trauma - affected
children and youth in their care.
PARENTAL CHILDHOOD ADVERSITY, DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS, AND PARENTING QUALITY:
EFFECTS ON TODDLER SELF - REGULATION IN
CHILD WELFARE SERVICES INVOLVED FAMILIES.