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Racial harm: Dorothy Roberts explains how racism works in the child welfare system. (Child Welfare).
It is often said that American child welfare policy operates like a pendulum. It swings between two main objectives: keeping troubled families together on one end, and protecting children from parental harm on the other. In recent years the pendulum of child welfare philosophy has swung decisively away from preserving families. State child protection officials responded to fatal child abuse cases, like that of Elisa Izquierdo in 1995, by escalating removal of at-risk children from their homes. And in 1997, Congress passed the Adoption and Safe Families Act that encourages state agencies to "free" children in foster care for adoption by terminating their parents' rights. ...
- `Financial incentives' cited in foster care: Child-welfare industry official...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Wetzstein, Cheryl February 28, 1997 700+ words
...protest from a child-welfare industry official. Child-welfare agencies "have...keep children in foster care too long, said...executive director of Child Welfare League of America...allegations. The foster-care system, he said...
- Private Agencies to Run D.C. Foster Care; Child Welfare Chief to Get $8 Million...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Michael Powell October 11, 1996 700+ words
...court-appointed child welfare receiver, has...Consortium for Child Welfare, an alliance of eight foster care agencies in the...reimbursements for foster care. Miller's staff...to flow into the child welfare system. The additional...
- Families for Life: Addressing the Needs of Older Children and Youth in Foster...
- News wire article from: AScribe Law News Service September 7, 2006 700+ words
...families for youth in foster care will kick off the 2006...policy experts from the child welfare field, state and local...for Older Youth in Foster Care. Congressman Danny...topic, with nearly 400 child welfare commissioners and directors...
- Probation foster care as an outcome for children exiting child welfare foster...
- Magazine article from: Social Work Jonson-Reid, Melissa Barth, Richard P. July 1, 2003 700+ words
...care and permanency after child welfare foster care is linked to later delinquent...followed children who exited child welfare foster care before emancipation to...absence of a return to child welfare foster care indicates a positive ...
- American Bar Association calls for improvements in foster care and child...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire June 1, 1989 700+ words
...CALLS FOR IMPROVEMENTS IN FOSTER CARE AND CHILD WELFARE PROGRAMS WASHINGTON, June...improving judicial handling of child welfare cases." Testifying at House...the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 requires courts...
- Texas Association of Child Placing Agencies Championing Best Practices in...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire March 21, 2005 700+ words
...APS) agencies. Child welfare issues are at the forefront...out for reforming the child welfare system in Texas...of Texas' private foster care organizations to improve...standards for privatized foster care agencies. TACPA has...
- COMMISSION CHAIRMAN MOSS SPONSORS LEGISLATION URGING CONGRESS TO IMPROVE AND...
- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News July 14, 2009 700+ words
...targeted at improving the Child Welfare System, Foster Care and to reform the...and reform both The Child Welfare System and Foster Care is steadily growing...children in both the child welfare and foster care system. Kinship care...
- How Illinois is moving kids out of foster-care limbo: The state's child-welfare...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor December 5, 2000 700+ words
...wrong the Illinois foster-care system. Over the course...number of them. But the child-welfare system was so difficult...s once-troubled foster-care system. In moving...the uncertainty of foster care - and into more permanent...
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