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Children with parents in prison: Child welfare policy, program, and practice issues
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As the rate at which adults are being incarcerated in the United States escalates, child welfare professionals are encountering growing numbers of children who have parents in prison. Current estimates indicate that as many as 1.5 million children have an incarcerated parent; many thousands of others have experienced the incarceration of a parent at some point in their lives. These vulnerable children face unique difficulties, and their growing numbers and special needs demand attention. Challenges facing the child welfare system as it attempts to work with this population are explored.
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In our best interest: Three necessary shifts for child welfare workers and children
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Child Welfare and the Challenge of New Americans
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Child Welfare Involvement Among Children in Homeless Families
; ...Method Data To examine child welfare involvement among homeless children, this study used...Service database on children who enter the child welfare system. The data...and information on children in child welfare was available from...
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Child welfare shuffled again; Children's Hospital takes over most county services
; Child welfare shuffled again Children's Hospital takes...county services Children's Hospital of...take over most child welfare services in Milwaukee...Center and the Children's Service Society to provide child welfare services. But...
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Business mustn't rear our children Quality of child welfare services must be top priority in any reforms enacted
; ...financial burden of child welfare. The driving force...care and CHIPS (Children in Need of Protective...placed on the poor children who are the only...protecting our children at whatever cost...the reform of child welfare to be a financially...to protecting children. We ...
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Child Welfare League of America Releases State Surveys Highlighting Status of the Nation's Children, Crisis Faced by Child Welfare System
; ...oldest national children's organization...State by State child welfare data showing increases...The numbers of children coming into the child welfare system remain...of parents with children in the child welfare system require...
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"Seen and not heard" sociological approaches to childhood: black children, agency and implications for child welfare.
; ...understanding children might be applied to child welfare practice...approach into child welfare practice. Key words: Black children, social agency...marginalization, child welfare Introduction...applied to child welfare practice. The focus on ...
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Children's Defense Fund Releases State Fact Sheets on Foster Care and Other Child Welfare Programs
; ...vulnerable children at risk...of CDF's Child Welfare and Mental...may harm children with special...are in the child welfare system and...families for children and improve...quality of the child welfare workforce...
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Black Administrators in Child Welfare to Call on Nation to Stop Failing Vulnerable Children; Rep. Elijah Cummings to Speak
; ...More than 500 child welfare administrators...parents and children are expected...in Private Child Welfare Agencies, How are the Children? Policy Issues...Administrators, Child Welfare Experts, Parents, and Children WHAT: Black...
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Children, families, and the law.(Family law)(Child, Youth and Family Enhancement Act replaced old Child Welfare Act )
; ...changes in Alberta's child welfare laws should bring good news to children and families in...replacing the old Child Welfare Act and regulations...better supports for children and families and...changes to the old child welfare system, placing...and well-being of ...
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