Author: Tommy Hearn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781632218292
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
This book is for anyone who has been put down or written off. If you were told you cannot this book will show you otherwise. With me, you will see this book written from both sides, first growing up as a child, enduring multiple hardships, facing impossible odds. Uniquely, you will see a transformation of my mind with faith in Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior. You will see two sides, one that is a personal experience and the other as a professional experience. This book is my personal testimony, exposing not just the systems flaws but the outrageous and abusive injustice it foists upon precious innocent children. Ultimately, though it is a story of redemption, as it chronicles the journey of one youth determined not to become just another statistic/victim of undeniably tragic circumstances. I pray my triumph serves as a model for future hope and positive change, for all who are suffering and potentially for the system as a whole, but only if the message gets out there letting the public know how things really work and why it must not continue without a major overhaul right down to its very core!
More Than a Child Welfare Kid!
Author: Tommy Hearn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781632218292
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
This book is for anyone who has been put down or written off. If you were told you cannot this book will show you otherwise. With me, you will see this book written from both sides, first growing up as a child, enduring multiple hardships, facing impossible odds. Uniquely, you will see a transformation of my mind with faith in Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior. You will see two sides, one that is a personal experience and the other as a professional experience. This book is my personal testimony, exposing not just the systems flaws but the outrageous and abusive injustice it foists upon precious innocent children. Ultimately, though it is a story of redemption, as it chronicles the journey of one youth determined not to become just another statistic/victim of undeniably tragic circumstances. I pray my triumph serves as a model for future hope and positive change, for all who are suffering and potentially for the system as a whole, but only if the message gets out there letting the public know how things really work and why it must not continue without a major overhaul right down to its very core!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781632218292
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
This book is for anyone who has been put down or written off. If you were told you cannot this book will show you otherwise. With me, you will see this book written from both sides, first growing up as a child, enduring multiple hardships, facing impossible odds. Uniquely, you will see a transformation of my mind with faith in Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior. You will see two sides, one that is a personal experience and the other as a professional experience. This book is my personal testimony, exposing not just the systems flaws but the outrageous and abusive injustice it foists upon precious innocent children. Ultimately, though it is a story of redemption, as it chronicles the journey of one youth determined not to become just another statistic/victim of undeniably tragic circumstances. I pray my triumph serves as a model for future hope and positive change, for all who are suffering and potentially for the system as a whole, but only if the message gets out there letting the public know how things really work and why it must not continue without a major overhaul right down to its very core!
The Welfare of Children
Author: Duncan Lindsey
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195136705
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Takes a critical look at the child welfare system, finding that the emphasis on abuse has produced a system that serves largely as a last resort for only the worst and most dramatic cases in child welfare. This book is a blueprint for the comprehensive reform of the child welfare system.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195136705
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Takes a critical look at the child welfare system, finding that the emphasis on abuse has produced a system that serves largely as a last resort for only the worst and most dramatic cases in child welfare. This book is a blueprint for the comprehensive reform of the child welfare system.
Child Welfare Law and Practice
Author: Donald N. Duquette
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938614552
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938614552
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Children of the Storm
Author: Andrew Billingsley
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN: 9780155072718
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Examines the reasons why the system of American child welfare is failing Black children.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN: 9780155072718
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Examines the reasons why the system of American child welfare is failing Black children.
Child Welfare for the Twenty-first Century
Author: Gerald P. Mallon
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231511167
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 785
Book Description
This up-to-date and comprehensive resource by leaders in child welfare is the first book to reflect the impact of the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) of 1997. The text serves as a single-source reference for a wide array of professionals who work in children, youth, and family services in the United States-policymakers, social workers, psychologists, educators, attorneys, guardians ad litem, and family court judges& mdash;and as a text for students of child welfare practice and policy. Features include: * Organized around ASFA's guiding principles of well-being, safety, and permanency * Focus on evidence-based "best practices" * Case examples integrated throughout * First book to include data from the first round of National Child and Family Service Reviews Topics discussed include the latest on prevention of child abuse and neglect and child protective services; risk and resilience in child development; engaging families; connecting families with public and community resources; health and mental health care needs of children and adolescents; domestic violence; substance abuse in the family; family preservation services; family support services and the integration of family-centered practices in child welfare; gay and lesbian adolescents and their families; children with disabilities; and runaway and homeless youth. The contributors also explore issues pertaining to foster care and adoption, including a focus on permanency planning for children and youth and the need to provide services that are individualized and culturally and spiritually responsive to clients. A review of salient systemic issues in the field of children, youth, and family services completes this collection.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231511167
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 785
Book Description
This up-to-date and comprehensive resource by leaders in child welfare is the first book to reflect the impact of the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) of 1997. The text serves as a single-source reference for a wide array of professionals who work in children, youth, and family services in the United States-policymakers, social workers, psychologists, educators, attorneys, guardians ad litem, and family court judges& mdash;and as a text for students of child welfare practice and policy. Features include: * Organized around ASFA's guiding principles of well-being, safety, and permanency * Focus on evidence-based "best practices" * Case examples integrated throughout * First book to include data from the first round of National Child and Family Service Reviews Topics discussed include the latest on prevention of child abuse and neglect and child protective services; risk and resilience in child development; engaging families; connecting families with public and community resources; health and mental health care needs of children and adolescents; domestic violence; substance abuse in the family; family preservation services; family support services and the integration of family-centered practices in child welfare; gay and lesbian adolescents and their families; children with disabilities; and runaway and homeless youth. The contributors also explore issues pertaining to foster care and adoption, including a focus on permanency planning for children and youth and the need to provide services that are individualized and culturally and spiritually responsive to clients. A review of salient systemic issues in the field of children, youth, and family services completes this collection.
Out of Harm's Way
Author: Richard J. Gelles
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190618019
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
"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"--
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190618019
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
"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"--
Raising Government Children
Author: Catherine E. Rymph
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469635658
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
In the 1930s, buoyed by the potential of the New Deal, child welfare reformers hoped to formalize and modernize their methods, partly through professional casework but more importantly through the loving care of temporary, substitute families. Today, however, the foster care system is widely criticized for failing the children and families it is intended to help. How did a vision of dignified services become virtually synonymous with the breakup of poor families and a disparaged form of "welfare" that stigmatizes the women who provide it, the children who receive it, and their families? Tracing the evolution of the modern American foster care system from its inception in the 1930s through the 1970s, Catherine Rymph argues that deeply gendered, domestic ideals, implicit assumptions about the relative value of poor children, and the complex public/private nature of American welfare provision fueled the cultural resistance to funding maternal and parental care. What emerged was a system of public social provision that was actually subsidized by foster families themselves, most of whom were concentrated toward the socioeconomic lower half, much like the children they served. Analyzing the ideas, debates, and policies surrounding foster care and foster parents' relationship to public welfare, Rymph reveals the framework for the building of the foster care system and draws out its implications for today's child support networks.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469635658
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
In the 1930s, buoyed by the potential of the New Deal, child welfare reformers hoped to formalize and modernize their methods, partly through professional casework but more importantly through the loving care of temporary, substitute families. Today, however, the foster care system is widely criticized for failing the children and families it is intended to help. How did a vision of dignified services become virtually synonymous with the breakup of poor families and a disparaged form of "welfare" that stigmatizes the women who provide it, the children who receive it, and their families? Tracing the evolution of the modern American foster care system from its inception in the 1930s through the 1970s, Catherine Rymph argues that deeply gendered, domestic ideals, implicit assumptions about the relative value of poor children, and the complex public/private nature of American welfare provision fueled the cultural resistance to funding maternal and parental care. What emerged was a system of public social provision that was actually subsidized by foster families themselves, most of whom were concentrated toward the socioeconomic lower half, much like the children they served. Analyzing the ideas, debates, and policies surrounding foster care and foster parents' relationship to public welfare, Rymph reveals the framework for the building of the foster care system and draws out its implications for today's child support networks.
From Pariahs to Partners
Author: David Tobis
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195099885
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
In the early 1990s 50,000 children were in New York City's foster care system. By 2011 there were fewer than 15,000. In his book, David Tobis shows how such radical change was driven largely by a movement of mothers whose children had been placed into foster care, who fought to become advocates and stakeholders in a system that had previously viewed them as part of the problem. This book serves as an example of how advocates can change a system, as told from the perspective of key figures, change agents, and the parent advocates themselves.
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195099885
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
In the early 1990s 50,000 children were in New York City's foster care system. By 2011 there were fewer than 15,000. In his book, David Tobis shows how such radical change was driven largely by a movement of mothers whose children had been placed into foster care, who fought to become advocates and stakeholders in a system that had previously viewed them as part of the problem. This book serves as an example of how advocates can change a system, as told from the perspective of key figures, change agents, and the parent advocates themselves.
The Children of the Poor
Author: Jacob August Riis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Jacob Riis was a Danish-born photojournalist who used his camera to draw attention to the plight of the poor.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Jacob Riis was a Danish-born photojournalist who used his camera to draw attention to the plight of the poor.
No Way to Treat a Child
Author: Naomi Schaefer Riley
Publisher: Bombardier Books
ISBN: 1642936588
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Kids in danger are treated instrumentally to promote the rehabilitation of their parents, the welfare of their communities, and the social justice of their race and tribe—all with the inevitable result that their most precious developmental years are lost in bureaucratic and judicial red tape. It is time to stop letting efforts to fix the child welfare system get derailed by activists who are concerned with race-matching, blood ties, and the abstract demands of social justice, and start asking the most important question: Where are the emotionally and financially stable, loving, and permanent homes where these kids can thrive? “Naomi Riley’s book reveals the extent to which abused and abandoned children are often injured by their government rescuers. It is a must-read for those seeking solutions to this national crisis.” —Robert L. Woodson, Sr., civil rights leader and president of the Woodson Center “Everyone interested in child welfare should grapple with Naomi Riley’s powerful evidence that the current system ill-serves the safety and well-being of vulnerable kids.” —Walter Olson, senior fellow, Cato Institute, Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies
Publisher: Bombardier Books
ISBN: 1642936588
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Kids in danger are treated instrumentally to promote the rehabilitation of their parents, the welfare of their communities, and the social justice of their race and tribe—all with the inevitable result that their most precious developmental years are lost in bureaucratic and judicial red tape. It is time to stop letting efforts to fix the child welfare system get derailed by activists who are concerned with race-matching, blood ties, and the abstract demands of social justice, and start asking the most important question: Where are the emotionally and financially stable, loving, and permanent homes where these kids can thrive? “Naomi Riley’s book reveals the extent to which abused and abandoned children are often injured by their government rescuers. It is a must-read for those seeking solutions to this national crisis.” —Robert L. Woodson, Sr., civil rights leader and president of the Woodson Center “Everyone interested in child welfare should grapple with Naomi Riley’s powerful evidence that the current system ill-serves the safety and well-being of vulnerable kids.” —Walter Olson, senior fellow, Cato Institute, Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies