Research to Consider While Effectively Re-Designing Child Welfare Services

An intense appetite for reforming and transforming child welfare services in the United States is yielding many new initiatives. Vulnerable children and families who become involved with child welfare clearly deserve higher quality and more effective services. New policies, programs, and practices s...

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Published in:Research on social work practice 2022-07, Vol.32 (5), p.483-498
Main Authors: Barth, Richard P., Berrick, Jill Duerr, Garcia, Antonio R., Drake, Brett, Jonson-Reid, Melissa, Gyourko, John R., Greeson, Johanna K. P.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Child welfare
Children
Families & family life
Misconceptions
Reforms
Welfare services
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Summary:An intense appetite for reforming and transforming child welfare services in the United States is yielding many new initiatives. Vulnerable children and families who become involved with child welfare clearly deserve higher quality and more effective services. New policies, programs, and practices should be built on sound evidence. Reforms based on misunderstandings about what the current data show may ultimately harm families. This review highlights 10 commonly held misconceptions which we assert are inconsistent with the best available contemporary evidence. Implications for better alignment of evidence and reform are discussed.
ISSN:1049-7315
1552-7581
DOI:10.1177/10497315211050000