protecting America's vulnerable children and families /
Jill Duerr Berrick.
New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
1 online resource (ix, 194 pages) :
illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-189) and index.
Securing a safe home for children: a new national priority -- Prevention: unrealized potential, unrecognized faults -- Reunification: one pathway home -- After adoption: keeping a connection to home -- Kinship guardianship: finding a home between the family and the state -- Quality foster care: my home for now -- Take me home -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index.
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There is a profound crisis in the United States' foster care system, Jill Duerr Berrick writes. No state has passed the federally mandated Child and Family Service Review; two-thirds of the state systems have faced class-action lawsuits demanding change; well over half of all children who enter foster care never go home.