Revitalizing Residential Care for Children and Youth - Cross-National Trends and Challenges (Hardcover)

Revitalizing Residential Care for Children and Youth: Cross-National Trends and Challenges addresses the question of how societies with developed welfare and social service systems assess current needs and future directions in their residential child and youth care sectors. This includes dealing with historical concerns raised about the placement of children and youth in residential care settings, as well as identifying innovative strategies which offer new pathways for the integration of this often neglected sector of service within the broader area of child welfare. Each of the sixteen countries selected for inclusion is examined through a common matrix including the current policy context, key trends and initiatives, characteristics of children and youth served, preparation of residential care personnel, promising programmatic innovations, and present strengths and challenges. Individual country analyses are supplemented by regional exemplars of innovative residential programs and practice in areas such as family engagement, helping youth with the transition from care to community, promising model programs and reflections on recent policy reform initiatives. In addition to take-aways from each country, the book's closing chapter identifies specific implications for policy reform, empirical research and residential program innovation. What sets this book apart is its systematic cross-national appraisal of residential care for children and youth with an eye toward identifying innovative policies and practices undergirded by research. In so doing, it offers a unique contribution to the international child welfare literature.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	INTERNATIONAL POLICY EXCHANGE SERIES
Release date:	February 2023
Authors:	James K. Whittaker • Lisa Holmes • Jorge Carlos Fernandez del Valle • Sigrid James
Dimensions:	242 x 161 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	488
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-764430-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General
LSN:	0-19-764430-9
Barcode:	9780197644300

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