Sentences with phrase «operating child welfare systems»

Though the Federal government sets rules which all States must follow and provides significant funding, it is the fifty states that have primary responsibility for establishing and operating child welfare systems.

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In addition, schools and the child welfare system must actively engage families — birth, kinship, foster, and adoptive — in all areas of a child's or youth's education, ensuring that they operate as a team to achieve the best educational outcomes possible.

Bridges can be built between programs that traditionally operate in silos through approaches such as Early Head Start / child care collaborations or the provision of health and mental health consultants to early childhood programs and child development specialists in the child welfare system.

The child welfare system generally operates to protect children.