Despite many well-intentioned efforts to create, revise, reform,
and establish an effective child welfare system in the United
States, the system continues to fail to ensure the safety and
well-being of maltreated children. Out of Harm's Way explores the
following four critical aspects of the system and presents a
specific change in each that would lead to lasting improvements.
rk, The Book of David, which helped raise awareness of - Deciding
who is the client. Child welfare systems attempt to balance the
needs of the child and those of the parents, often failing both.
Clearly answering this question is the most important, yet
unaddressed, issue facing the child welfare system. - Decisions.
The key task for a caseworker is not to provide services but to
make decisions regarding child abuse and neglect, case goals, and
placement; however, practitioners have only the crudest tools at
their disposal when making what are literally life and death
decisions. - The Perverse Incentive. Billions of dollars are spent
each year to place and maintain children in out-of-home care.
Foster care is meant to be short-term, yet the existing federal
funding serves as a perverse incentive to keep children in
out-of-home placements. - Aging out. More than 20,000 youth age out
of the foster care system each year, and yet what the system calls
emancipation could more accurately be viewed as child neglect.
After having spent months, years, or longer moving from placement
to placement, aging-out youth are suddenly thrust into
homelessness, unemployment, welfare, and oppressive disadvantage. e
number of adoptions increased, while the length of time The
chapters in this book offer a blueprint for reform that eschews the
tired cycle of a tragedy followed by outrage and calls for more
money, staff, training, and lawsuits that provide, at best,
fleeting relief as a new complacency slowly sets in until the cycle
repeats. If we want, instead, to try something else, the changes
that Gelles outlines in this book are affordable, scalable, and
proven.
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