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04470aam a2200445 i 4500 001 287324D619C611E7BD0085CCDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170405010226 008 161215s2017 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2016031372 020 $a 0190618019 020 $a 9780190618018 035 $a (OCoLC)961408271 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HV741 $b .G45 2017 082 00 $a 362.7068 $2 23 084 $a FAM004000 $a FAM004000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Gelles, Richard J., $e author. 245 10 $a Out of harm's way : $b creating an effective child welfare system / $c Richard J. Gelles. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2017] 300 $a viii, 186 pages ; $c 25 cm 520 $a " 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. - 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. 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. "-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "Despite 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 wellbeing of maltreated children. Out of Harm's Way presents four specific changes that would lead to a more effective system"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 8 $a Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Child Welfare is Not Brain Surgery; It's Much for Difficult -- Part I: Tragedy and its Aftermath -- Chapter 1: In an Ideal World -- Chapter 2: In the Real World -- Chapter 3: System Reform: Rounding up the Usual Suspects, Lawsuits, and Policy Changes -- Part II: Centers of Gravity -- Chapter 4: Who Is The Client? -- Chapter 5: Portals, Gates, and Decisions -- Chapter 6: Follow The Money: The Perverse Incentive of Federal Foster Care Funding -- Chapter 7: Aging Out -- Chapter 8: It Takes a Village... 650 0 $a Child welfare $x Government policy $z United States. 650 0 $a Foster children $z United States. 650 0 $a Children $x Services for $z United States. 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Adoption & Fostering. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Child welfare $x Government policy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00854729 650 7 $a Children $x Services for. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00855120 650 7 $a Foster children. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00933178 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20220105021354.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=287324D619C611E7BD0085CCDAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search