protecting America's vulnerable children and families /
First Statement of Responsibility
Jill Duerr Berrick.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2009.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
ix, 194 pages :
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illustrations ;
Dimensions
24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-189) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"Take Me Home offers prescriptions for policy change and strategies for parents, social workers, and judges struggling with permanency decisions. Readers will come away reinvigorated in their thinking about how to get children to the homes they need."--Jacket.
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"There is a profound crisis in the United States' foster care system, Jill Duerr Berrick writes in this book. 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; and most tellingly, well over half of all children who enter foster care never go home. The field of child welfare has lost its way and is neglecting its fundamental responsibility to the most vulnerable children and families in America." "But despite the clear crisis in child welfare, most calls for reform have focused on unproven prevention methods, not on improving the situation for those already caught in the system. Berrick argues that real child welfare reform will only occur when the centerpiece of child welfare - reunification, permanency, and foster care - is reaffirmed."