Description

The text consists of 30 chapters, supplemented with over 50 statistical tables and graphs.

The text concludes with a comprehensive agenda for the entire field of Canadian child welfare research. The themes of empowering and strengthening families, communities and social support networks, and providing family and cultural continuity for children are stressed throughout.

Table of Contents

• Foreword, David Thornton Introduction, Joe Hudson and Burt Galaway

PART 1: ORGANIZING AND DELIVERING CHILD WELFARE SERVICES

• 1. Organizing and Delivering Child Welfare Services: The Contributions of Research

• 2. Bridging the Gap: An Exploration of Social Service Administrators’ Perspectives on Citizen Involvement in Social Welfare Programs

• 3. Correlates of Substantiation of Maltreatment in Child Welfare Investigations

• 4. Aboriginal Government of Child Welfare Services: Hobson’s Choice?

• 5. Child Welfare Standards in First Nations: A Community-Based Study

• 6. The Nature and Effectiveness of Parent Mutual Aid Organizations in Child Welfare

• 7. Interorganizational Policy Development and Implementation: An Examination of The School-Human Services Redesign Initiative in Hennepin County, Minnesota

• 8. Improving the Organization and Delivery of Child Welfare Services: Themes, Policy Implications, and Research Agenda

PART 2 : SUPPORT AND PREVENTION PROGRAMMING

• 9. Assessing the Impact of Family-Based Services

• 10. Preserving and Strengthening Families and Protecting Children: Social Network Intervention, A Balanced Approach to the Prevention of Child Maltreatment

• 11. Social Prevention: A Study of Projects in an Urban Environment

• 12. Family Group Decision Making: An Innovation in Child and Family Welfare

• 13. Taking Risks with Families at Risk: Some Alternative Approaches with Poor Families in Canada

• 14. Deciding About Justice for Young People in New Zealand: The Involvement of Families, Victims and Culture

• 15. Support and Prevention Programming: Themes, Policy Implications, and Research Agenda

PART 3: FOSTER CARE PROGRAMMING

• 16. Treatment Foster Care and Reunification with a Family: Children Likely to Experience Family Placement after Treatment Foster Care Services

• 17. Specialist Foster Care Program Standards in Relation to Costs, Client Characteristics, and Outcomes

• 18. Birth Parent Participation in Treatment Foster Care Programs in North America and the United Kingdoml

• 19. Moving In and Out of Foster Care
• 20. Foster Care Programming: Themes, Policy Implications and Research Agenda

PART 4: ADOPTIONS PROGRAMMING

• 21. Adoption and Mental Health: Studies of Adolescents and Adults

• 22. Intercountry Adoption in Canada: Predictors Of Well-Being

• 23. Adoptions: Themes, Policy Implications and Research Agenda

PART 5: CHILD WELFARE SERVICE EXPERIENCES AND OUTCOMES

• 24. Listening to Low-Income Children and Single Mothers: Policy Implications Related to Child Welfare

• 25. Return Home as Experienced by Children in State Care and Their Families

• 26. Contributions to Resilience in Children and Youth: What Successful Child Welfare Graduates Say

• 27. Looking After Children Better: An Interactive Model For Research and Practice

• 28. Inclusive Care, Separation Management, and Role Clarity in Foster Care: The Development of Theoretical Constructs

• 29. Care Experiences and Outcomes of Child Welfare Services in a Scandinavian Context

• 30. Child Welfare Experiences and Outcomes: Themes, Policy Implications and Research Agenda

PART 6: A RESEARCH AGENDA

• 31. The Directions for Future Research