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The Grand Challenges for Social Work Initiative (GCSWI), which is
spearheaded by the American Academy of Social Work and Social
Welfare (AASWSW), represents a major endeavor for the entire field
of social work. GCSWI calls for bold innovation and collective
action powered by proven and evolving scientific interventions to
address critical social issues facing society. The purpose of GCSWI
was modeled after the National Academy of Engineering, which aimed
to identify some of the most persistent engineering problems of the
day and then put the attentions, energies, and funding of the
entire field to work on them for a decade. The GCSWI does the same
for social issues, tackling problems such as homelessness, social
isolation, mass incarceration, family violence, and economic
inequality. Grand Challenges for Social Work and Society is an
edited book that will present the foundations of the GCSWI, laying
out the start of the initiative and providing summaries of each of
the twelve challenges. The 12 main chapters that form the core of
the book, one on each of the dozen Grand Challenges, are written by
the primary research teams who are driving each GC project.
Helping vulnerable children develop their full potential is an
attractive idea with broad common-sense appeal. However, child
well-being is a broad concept, and the legislative mandate for
addressing well-being in the context of the current child welfare
system is not particularly clear. This volume asserts that finding
a place for well-being on the list of outcomes established to
manage the child welfare system is not as easy as it first appears.
The overall thrust of this argument is that policy should be
evidence-based, and the available evidence is a primary focus of
the book. Because policymakers have to make decisions that allocate
resources, a basic understanding of incidence in the public health
tradition is important, as is evidence that speaks to the question
of what works clinically. The rest of the book addresses the
evidence. Chapter 2 integrates bio-ecological and public health
perspectives to give the evidence base coherence. Chapters 3 and 4
combine evidence from the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data
System, the Multistate Foster Care Data Archive, and the National
Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being to offer an unprecedented
profile of children as they enter the child welfare system.
Chapters 5 and 6 address the broad question of what works. A
concluding chapter focuses on policy and future directions,
suggesting that children starting out, children starting school,
and children starting adolescence are high-risk populations for
which explicit strategies have to be formed. This timely volume
offers useful insights into the child welfare system and will be of
particular interest to policymakers, academics with an interest in
Child Welfare Policy, Social Work educators, and Child Advocates.
Fred Wulczyn is a research fellow at Chapin Hall Center for
Children at the University of Chicago. Richard P. Barth is the
Frank A. Daniels Distinguished Professor, School of Social Work,
University of North Carolina. Ying-Ying T. Yuan is senior vice
president at Walter R. McDonald & Associates, Inc. Brenda Jones
Harden is associate professor at the Institute for Child Study at
the University of Maryland. John Landsverk is director of the
NIMH-funded Child and Adolescent Services Research Center at
Children's Hospital, San Diego.
More than two million child abuse reports are filed annually on
behalf of children in the United States. Each of the reported
children becomes a concern, at least temporarily, of the
professional who files the report, and each family is assessed by
additional professionals. A substantial number of children in these
families will subsequently enter foster care. Until now, the
relationships between the performance of our child welfare system
and the growth and outcomes of foster care have not been
understood. In an effort to clarify them, Barth and his colleagues
have synthesized the results of their longitudinal study in
California of the paths taken by children after the initial abuse
report: foster care, a return to their homes, or placement for
adoption. Because of the outcomes of child welfare services in
California have national significance, this is far more than a
regional study. It provides a comprehensive picture of children's
experiences in the child welfare system and a gauge of the
effectiveness of that system. The policy implications of the
California study have bearing on major federal and state
initiatives to prevent child abuse and reduce unnecessary foster
and group home care.
First Published in 2017. In this book the authors move easily and
often between the worlds of policy, practice, and research in child
and family welfare. Their own research delineates- better than any
other to date- the particular factors associated with
success>ful and unsuccessful older, special-needs adoptions.
More than two million child abuse reports are filed annually on
behalf of children in the United States. Each of the reported
children becomes a concern, at least temporarily, of the
professional who files the report, and each family is assessed by
additional professionals. A substantial number of children in these
families will subsequently enter foster care. Until now, the
relationships between the performance of our child welfare system
and the growth and outcomes of foster care have not been
understood. In an effort to clarify them, Barth and his colleagues
have synthesized the results of their longitudinal study in
California of the paths taken by children after the initial abuse
report: foster care, a return to their homes, or placement for
adoption. Because of the outcomes of child welfare services in
California have national significance, this is far more than a
regional study. It provides a comprehensive picture of children's
experiences in the child welfare system and a gauge of the
effectiveness of that system. The policy implications of the
California study have bearing on major federal and state
initiatives to prevent child abuse and reduce unnecessary foster
and group home care.
Using both historical and contemporary contexts, The Child Welfare
Challenge examines major policy practice and research issues as
they jointly shape child welfare practice and its future. This text
focuses on families and children whose primary recourse to services
has been through publicly funded child welfare agencies, and
considers historical areas of service-foster care and adoptions,
in-home family-centered services, child-protective services, and
residential treatment services-where social work has an important
role. This fourth edition features new content on child
maltreatment and prevention that is informed by key conceptual
frameworks informed by brain science, public health, and other
research. This edition uses cross-sector data and more
sophisticated predictive and other analytical processes to enhance
planning and practice design. The authors have streamlined content
on child protective services (CPS) to allow for new chapters on
juvenile justice/cross-over youth, and international innovations,
as well as more content on biology and brain science. The fourth
edition includes a glossary of terms as well as instructor and
student resource papers available online.
The Grand Challenges for Social Work Initiative (GCSWI), which is
spearheaded by the American Academy of Social Work and Social
Welfare (AASWSW), represents a major endeavor for the entire field
of social work. GCSWI calls for bold innovation and collective
action powered by proven and evolving scientific interventions to
address critical social issues facing society. The GCSWI aims to
identify and find solutions for some of the most persistent social
issues, tackling problems such as homelessness, social isolation,
mass incarceration, family violence, and economic inequality. Grand
Challenges for Social Work and Society is an edited book that
presents the foundations of the GCSWI, laying out the start of the
initiative and providing summaries of each of the twelve
challenges. The 13 main chapters that form the core of the book,
one on each of the Grand Challenges, are written by the primary
research teams who are driving each GC project. The second edition
includes updates on the initiatives laid out in the first edition
and sets new goals for the next five years. It also includes new
information on the Grand Challenge to Eliminate Racism, expanding
the social work pipeline, commentaries from leading social work
organizations, and how interdisciplinary science can best provide a
platform to tackle society's most urgent problems. This fully
updated second edition of Grand Challenges for Social Work and
Society is important reading for all practicing social workers.
Using both historical and contemporary contexts, The Child Welfare
Challenge examines major policy practice and research issues as
they jointly shape child welfare practice and its future. This text
focuses on families and children whose primary recourse to services
has been through publicly funded child welfare agencies, and
considers historical areas of service-foster care and adoptions,
in-home family-centered services, child-protective services, and
residential treatment services-where social work has an important
role. This fourth edition features new content on child
maltreatment and prevention that is informed by key conceptual
frameworks informed by brain science, public health, and other
research. This edition uses cross-sector data and more
sophisticated predictive and other analytical processes to enhance
planning and practice design. The authors have streamlined content
on child protective services (CPS) to allow for new chapters on
juvenile justice/cross-over youth, and international innovations,
as well as more content on biology and brain science. The fourth
edition includes a glossary of terms as well as instructor and
student resource papers available online.
Based on a significant body of evidence regarding young children's unique affective, physical, and cognitive development, The Tender Years illuminates the interrelationship of child welfare practice, child development outcomes, and public policy. The authors offer a fundamental framework for decision-making in child welfare and recommend specific changes in policy and practice aimed at moving the system toward greater developmental sensitivity.
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