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Take Me Home - Protecting America's Vulnerable Children and Families (Hardcover)
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Take Me Home - Protecting America's Vulnerable Children and Families (Hardcover)
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There is a profound crisis in the United States' foster care
system, Jill Duerr Berrick writes in this expertly researched,
passionately written book. No state has passed the federally
mandated Child and Family Service Review; two-thirds of the state
systems have faced class-action lawsuits demanding change; and most
tellingly, well over half of all children who enter foster care
never go home. The field of child welfare has lost its way and is
neglecting its fundamental responsibility to the most vulnerable
children and families in America.
The family stories Berrick weaves throughout the chapters provide
a vivid backdrop for her statistics. Amanda, raised in foster care,
began having children of her own while still a teen and lost them
to the system when she became addicted to drugs. Tracy, brought up
by her schizophrenic single mother, gave birth to the first of
eight children at age fourteen and saw them all shuffled through
foster care as she dealt drugs and went to prison. Both they and
the other individuals that Berrick features spent years without
adequate support from social workers or the government before
finally achieving a healthier life; many people never do. But
despite the clear crisis in child welfare, most calls for reform
have focused on unproven prevention methods, not on improving the
situation for those already caught in the system. Berrick argues
that real child welfare reform will only occur when the centerpiece
of child welfare - reunification, permanency, and foster care - is
reaffirmed.
Take Me Home reminds us that children need long-term caregivers
who can help them develop and thrive. When troubled parents can't
change enough to permit reunification, alternative permanency
options must be pursued. And no reform will matter for the hundreds
of thousands of children entering foster care each year in America
unless their experience of out-of-home care is considerably better
than the one many now experience. Take Me Home offers prescriptions
for policy change and strategies for parents, social workers, and
judges struggling with permanency decisions. Readers will come away
reinvigorated in their thinking about how to get children to the
homes they need.
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