Differential response: Looking at this child welfare reform from evidence and rights based perspectives

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Desmond Runyan ◽  
John Fluke ◽  
Lisa Merkel-Holguin ◽  
Amy Hahn
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Differential Response ◽  
Child Welfare Reform

Challenges of Street-Level Child Welfare Reform and Technology Transfer: The Case of Team Decisionmaking

2008 ◽  
Vol 89 (4) ◽  
pp. 512-520 ◽  
Author(s):  
David S. Crampton ◽  
Thomas M. Crea ◽  
Anne Abramson-Madden ◽  
Charles L. Usher
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Community Partners ◽  
Street Level ◽  
Diverse Communities ◽  
Child Welfare Reform

Team Decisionmaking (TDM) involves a meeting of community representatives, family members, and social workers who review every decision to remove children from their parents or change of placement, including reunification or adoption. Even when the leadership of child welfare organizations mandates the use of TDM, implementing TDM is very challenging. To understand these challenges, a research team visited five diverse communities and conducted 74 focus groups and interviews involving 180 administrators, caseworkers, community partners, supervisors, and TDM facilitators. This article reviews the findings of this TDM study through previous research on street-level bureaucracy and technology transfer. The results suggest successful TDM implementation requires attention to the discretion of street-level caseworkers and the organizational constraints they face.

Reforming a System That Cannot Reform Itself: Child Welfare Reform by Class Action Lawsuits

Social Work ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 283-291
Author(s):  
Joyce Y Lee ◽  
Terri Gilbert ◽  
Shawna J Lee ◽  
Karen M Staller
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Class Action ◽  
Systematic Change ◽  
Class Action Lawsuits ◽  
Child Welfare Reform ◽  
Consent Decrees

Abstract Class action lawsuits have become an increasingly common way to facilitate institutional reform. The purpose of this article is to provide an introduction to social workers of child welfare reform by class action lawsuits and subsequent consent decrees. The authors provide an overview of class action lawsuits, with a focus on their role in implementing systematic change in the United States. They highlight consent decrees as a means of settling class action lawsuits. They illustrate the current state of the child welfare system and how child advocacy groups have used class action lawsuits to initiate reform. Authors provide two case examples of child welfare reform by consent decree and engage in comparative analysis to investigate similarities and differences in the two cases. Finally, they note implications for social work practice and education and provide recommendations to equip and train social workers involved in child welfare services.

An Exploration of Supervisor's and Manager's Responses to Child Welfare Reform

2002 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 17-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl Regehr ◽  
Shirley Chau ◽  
Bruce Leslie ◽  
Phillip Howe
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Child Welfare Reform
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