Moving Child Welfare Forward
Achieving Positive Outcomes for Children, Youth and Families
Class One: An Overview of Child Welfare in America
Topics
- Class outline, logistics, requirements and expectations
- Influences
on American child welfare: past, present and future
- Recent
federal legislation impacting child welfare
Learning Objectives
When this class is complete, the student should
be able to:
- Identify the major economic factors, policies, legislation
and social trends that influenced the development of child
welfare in America
- Explain the purpose and major requirements
of recent child welfare laws
- Understand the overall outline
of the course.
Suggested Assignments
- Read and be prepared to discuss in class
Uniting Welfare and Child Welfare: The
El Paso County Department of Human Services (Source: Harvard University, Kennedy School
of Government, case number C16-03-1701.0.)
- Go to the Administration
on Children and Families website (http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/),
select and review a recent piece of federal legislation relating
to the field of child welfare and develop a one-page fact sheet
on the major requirements of the selected legislation.
Suggested in class activities
Suggested Readings
- Bernstein, N. (2001) The Lost Children
of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care. New
York: Vintage Books. Part One. This book tells the story of
Shirley Wilder’s
life story and the struggles she faced with the child protective
system.
- Cohen, Neil, A. (2000). Child Welfare:
A Multicultural Focus. 2nd Ed. Chapters 1 and 2: Child Welfare: A Generalist
Perspective and Child Welfare History in the United States.
Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon, pp 1 -40. Provides an historical
view of the social, political and economic forces that shaped
current child welfare practice, policies, legislation and systems.
- Crosson-Tower,
Cynthia. (2002). Understanding Child Abuse
and Neglect. 5th
Ed. Chapter 19: Toward a Better Tomorrow. Boston, MA: Allyn and
Bacon, pp. 417-429. Discusses societal and system changes needed
to more fully address the problem of child abuse and neglect.
Supplemental Reference Material
Readings
- American Public Human Services Association. (2000).
States at Work: Implementing the Adoption
and Safe Families Act, Parts I-III. Washington, D.C.
- George,
L.J. (1997). Why the Need for the Indian Child Welfare Act? Journal
of Multi-Cultural Social Work, 5, 165-175.
Video
- Oklahoma Department of Human Services. 2001 MEPA.
Time: 29:58. Oklahoma Department of Human Services, Children
and Family Services Division.
On-Line Resources
- www.acf.dhhs.gov/ provides
information about the Administration for Children and Families
(ACF) which is a federal agency funding state, territory, local,
and tribal organizations to provide family assistance (welfare),
child support, child care, Head Start, child welfare, and other
programs relating to children and families.
- www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/fysb/ provides
information about the Family and Youth Services Bureau which
supports local communities in providing services and opportunities
to young people.
- http://muskie.usm.maine.edu/helpkids/ provides
information about the National Child Welfare Resource Center
for Organizational Improvement, including child welfare publications, teleconferences
and other resources.
- www.rom.ku.edu University of
Kansas School of Social Welfare, web-based training on results
oriented management, Section1: Policy Context for Child Welfare
Practice reviews the policies and legislation that serve
as a foundation for today’s child
welfare programs.
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