Sentences with phrase «term welfare of children»

The development of strong attachments between mothers and children is essential to promote the long - term welfare of children.

Within the MAPP practice framework, child welfare staff, foster parents and adoptive parents work as a team to preserve or rebuild the family around the long - term welfare of the child.

The goal is to preserve or rebuild the family around the long - term welfare of the child.

Not exact matches

Even though alcoholism ranks as one of the country's three major health problems, along with cancer and heart disease; even though it accounts for approximately 98,000 deaths every year; even though it is the root cause of most pastoral - care crises (suicides, auto fatalities, child abuse, divorces, hospital admissions, accidental deaths and home violence); even though it costs the nation $ 120 billion annually in terms of lost work time, health and welfare benefits, property damage, medical expenses, insurance and lost wages; and even though its effects impair the educational process of every child in every classroom, still the church acts as though alcoholism does not exist.

More generally, the child welfare rationale for treating fathers and mothers who are a risk to their children differently in terms of registration and PR is not clearcut.

Ian Kershaw earlier this year correctly noted the long term cross party political apathy displayed by all the leaders towards the welfare of vulnerable children in Birmingham.

The cuts to Close to Home and foster care are, in terms of dollars, «the most drastic cut we've seen to child welfare in decades,» said David Hansell, commissioner for the city's Administration for Children's Services, which administers Close to Home and foster care.

• Short - term savings from cutting the middle class out of state benefits as Nick Clegg suggests on child benefit (Britain needs «savage» cuts, says Clegg, 19 September) would weaken public support for the social safety net on which the poorest depend and ultimately endanger the future of the welfare state itself.

What the Tories are saying about child trust funds, child tax credits and Sure Start — they're saying, «let's residualise, let's make the welfare state just for the poor» but [this goes against] all the evidence in terms of maintaining public support [for the welfare state].

A large part of the activities of these organisations depends on the involvement of volunteers who participate in collective actions such as legal aid, advice and support in terms of access to services (housing, schools, welfare, etc.), language or educational support (in particular children's support), fundraising, therapeutic or moral support.

Equally, women often have similar troubles, but in a slightly different way; sometimes, when confronted with affluence and success in a man, they have the same mental reasoning block and in a subconscious effort to find and create a stable environment for their children, they will choose the man that can offer them financial stability over one that might actually be better for both then and their children in terms of their spiritual welfare.

Early Head Start, a federally funded childcare program that serves infants, toddlers, and their parents, indicated long - term benefits such as improved family functioning and coping skills, lower stress, reduced incidents of child abuse, and fewer child welfare encounters.

[221] We also propose to include children in the child welfare system in this provision, given their family instability and the importance of early intervention, like that provided by Head Start, on their school readiness and long - term outcomes.

It comes with a caveat that the terms reflect continued revenue increases to the district from the state and rising costs for health and welfare plans that the district says costs $ 17,134 per employee, as well as «tens of millions in personal injury liability arising out of child abuse incidents.»

By comparing fourth - grade literacy outcomes against the experiences and inputs that produced these results — including indicators of health - care and preschool access, family economic well - being, mental - health and child - welfare services, nutrition, and comprehensive school quality — we can identify gaps in how we are serving children and target investments and reforms to those areas with the greatest potential to improve children's long - term life outcomes.

The term «welfare of the child» is vague.

The consideration of a child's welfare throughout his life required by ACA 2002, necessitates long - term future speculation by the courts, seriously prejudicing a parent, as they will be unable to show they have the potential future financial and home stability of an approved adoptor.

As a guiding principle, the welfare of the child as a legal term at the heart of the system of child and youth care is in need of fleshing out and has to be constantly recalibrated on an individual case - by - case basis.

As a guiding principle, the welfare of the child as a legal term at the heart of the system of child and youth care is in need of fleshing out...

Appointed to the BC Aboriginal Justice Council for a 4 year term, which is tasked with responding to and addressing the overrepresentation of Aboriginal people in the criminal and child welfare systems.

Patrick Johnson, a researcher for the Canadian Council on Social Development, coined the term «Sixties Scoop» in a 1983 report that explored the mass apprehension of Aboriginal children from their homes and reserves and into Canadian and American child welfare systems during the 1960s.

Reflecting discrimination within the child welfare system, worker bias was perceived by many participants in this study to occur in terms of class and culture.

Those who argue that minority children and families have a disproportionate need for child welfare services point to the vulnerability of this population in terms of many social indicators, the most salient of which is poverty.

ADHD is a common condition, affecting between 3 % and 5 % of children, with important consequences for adverse long - term outcomes in health and education and welfare; as such it is an important public health problem.

Differences in nomenclature, particularly the terms «emotional and behavioural problems», «mental health problems» and «mental disorders», have developed out of the different medical and social welfare systems to which troubled children have been subject.

Few prevention programs have been rigorously evaluated, and only a few have proven effective.60, 61 Health - care based prevention programs, including parent education programs to reduce rates of abusive head trauma, and improving physician ambulatory care practices to help families decrease risk factors for child maltreatment have shown good initial results, but require further evaluation.62, 63 Specific intensive home visitation programs such as nurse home visiting programs for first - time mothers have proven to be both clinically and cost effective in preventing maltreatment.64, 65 However, a program of nurse home visitation has been found ineffective as a treatment model for abusive and neglectful families, highlighting the importance of primary prevention, as well as the need to rigorously evaluate potential treatments for abusive families.66 Child welfare services are historically structured as short - term interventions that monitor families for recidivism, provide parenting education and assist with referrals to community - based servchild maltreatment have shown good initial results, but require further evaluation.62, 63 Specific intensive home visitation programs such as nurse home visiting programs for first - time mothers have proven to be both clinically and cost effective in preventing maltreatment.64, 65 However, a program of nurse home visitation has been found ineffective as a treatment model for abusive and neglectful families, highlighting the importance of primary prevention, as well as the need to rigorously evaluate potential treatments for abusive families.66 Child welfare services are historically structured as short - term interventions that monitor families for recidivism, provide parenting education and assist with referrals to community - based servChild welfare services are historically structured as short - term interventions that monitor families for recidivism, provide parenting education and assist with referrals to community - based services.

Investigates the work done within and across the disciplines of adult substance abuse, child welfare, and child mental health, including the measurement of key terms, conceptualization of primary variables, and suggestions of implications for translational science to practice.

Neglect is by far the most common form of child maltreatment reported to the U.S. child welfare system; 78 % of reports in 2009 were for neglect.1 The short - and long - term outcomes associated with neglect are often serious, including fatalities, physiological changes in the brain, academic difficulties, criminal behaviour and mental health problems.

Challenges to including measures of child maltreatment involve the complexity of obtaining consent from families and access to state child welfare records, the need for both short - and long - term follow - up to assess program impact, and concerns about the reliability and validity of parent or staff reports.

major long - term issues, in relation to a child, means issues about the care, welfare and development of the child of a long - term nature and includes (but is not limited to) issues of that nature about:

In the short term, the community organization leaders also hope to reduce the number of children entering the child welfare system.

The term» successful and healthy» as used here, means completing the divorce process of emotional separation, achieving a new center of balance as a single person and single parent, maintaining the best interest and welfare of your children, and establishing positive and healthy new attitudes toward yourself, your ex-spouse, and your prior marriage.

The marital settlement agreement for divorce or separation can include a variety of terms, which pertain to topics such as property, accounts, debts, child support, child welfare, personal welfare, alimony, and all other aspects of one's interpersonal or financial circumstances.

Preventing Early Child Maltreatment: Implications from a Longitudinal Study of Maternal Abuse History, Substance Use Problems, and Offspring Victimization Appleyard, Berlin, Rosanbalm, & Dodge (2011) Prevention Science, 12 (2) View Abstract Presents the findings of a study focused on improving child maltreatment prevention science in terms of specific implications for child maltreatment prevention, including the importance of assessment and early intervention for maternal history of maltreatment and substance use problems, targeting women with maltreatment histories for substance use services, and integrating child welfare and parenting programs with substance use treatChild Maltreatment: Implications from a Longitudinal Study of Maternal Abuse History, Substance Use Problems, and Offspring Victimization Appleyard, Berlin, Rosanbalm, & Dodge (2011) Prevention Science, 12 (2) View Abstract Presents the findings of a study focused on improving child maltreatment prevention science in terms of specific implications for child maltreatment prevention, including the importance of assessment and early intervention for maternal history of maltreatment and substance use problems, targeting women with maltreatment histories for substance use services, and integrating child welfare and parenting programs with substance use treatchild maltreatment prevention science in terms of specific implications for child maltreatment prevention, including the importance of assessment and early intervention for maternal history of maltreatment and substance use problems, targeting women with maltreatment histories for substance use services, and integrating child welfare and parenting programs with substance use treatchild maltreatment prevention, including the importance of assessment and early intervention for maternal history of maltreatment and substance use problems, targeting women with maltreatment histories for substance use services, and integrating child welfare and parenting programs with substance use treatchild welfare and parenting programs with substance use treatment.

If the incident counts of physical child abuse reported by child welfare agencies appropriately are adjusted into percentage format — as they have to be to speak in terms of «likelihoods» by taking into account actual numbers of children cared for by mothers and fathers, actual time spent directly caring for children by mothers and fathers, numbers of incidences per actual numbers of direct caregiver mothers and fathers — not to mention making adjustment to differentiate «neglect» reports from affirmative «physical abuse» — you will find that children are at many times more risk of physical abuse in the care of fathers than mothers, and at astronomically more risk for serious physical abuse and sexual abuse.

The initiative is an outgrowth of the State Child and Family Services Reviews, which showed that serious deficiencies exist in most State child welfare agencies in terms of ensuring children's safety, finding them permanent homes, and promoting their well - bChild and Family Services Reviews, which showed that serious deficiencies exist in most State child welfare agencies in terms of ensuring children's safety, finding them permanent homes, and promoting their well - bchild welfare agencies in terms of ensuring children's safety, finding them permanent homes, and promoting their well - being.

The aim of this amendment is to ensure that court timetabling is sufficiently flexible to allow for delay where this is constructive and necessary for the child's long term welfare.

(c) subject to any order of a court for the time being in force, a person who has parental responsibility for a child because of the operation of this Act or another Australian law and is responsible for the day ‑ to ‑ day or long ‑ term care, welfare and development of the child should be regarded as having rights of custody in respect of the child; and

Making the Link Between Early Childhood Systems Building and Poverty Reduction: This webinar provided a concise overview of welfare policy and young child poverty in the United States, and why poverty scholars are now taking a particular focus upon strengthening families as a long - term necessity to addressing poverty and inequality.

Much more common than true joint custody arrangements (where both physical and legal custody are shared) is «joint legal custody,» in which both parents share the right to make long - term decisions about the raising of a child and key aspects of the child's welfare, with physical custody awarded to one parent.

Over the decades, government officials, judges and medical professionals have engaged in unjust practices including forced sterilization of women deemed «unfit» to have children, offers of financial incentives to welfare recipients who use long - term or permanent contraception, and reductions in jail time for offenders who agree to use contraception.

Most children who come to the attention of child welfare social workers do so because of any of the following situations, which are often collectively termed child maltreatment:

In the United States, the term child welfare or child protection is used to describe a set of government services designed to protect children and encourage family stability.

In the absence of proof to the contrary, however, there is a presumption that the terms concerning the children in your agreement are fair, reasonable and necessary for the best interest and welfare of the children.

(a) a child protection officer of a State or Territory requires the person to be subject to the income management regime; or (b) the Secretary has determined that the person is a vulnerable welfare payment recipient; or (c) the person meets the criteria relating to disengaged youth; or (d) the person meets the criteria relating to long - term welfare payment recipients; or (e) the person, or the person's partner, has a child who does not meet school enrolment requirements; or (f) the person, or the person's partner, has a child who has unsatisfactory school attendance; or (g) the Queensland Commission requires the person to be subject to the income management regime.