Moving Toward Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare

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Moving Toward Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare: Current Issues and Future Directions
By Gary Cameron, Nick Coady, Gerald R. Adams



Publisher:  Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Number Of Pages:  408
Publication Date:  2007-04-19
ISBN-10 / ASIN:  0889205183
ISBN-13 / EAN:  9780889205185


Product Description:


Faced with rapidly changing social and economic conditions, service professionals, policy developers, and researchers have raised significant concerns about the Canadian child welfare system. This book draws inspiration from experiences with three broad, international child welfare paradigms—child protection, family service, and community healing/caring (First Nations)—to look at how specific practices in other countries, as well as alternative experiments in Canada, might foster positive innovations in the Canadian child welfare approach.

Foundational values and purposes, systems design and policy, and organization and management are discussed, as are front-line service delivery, service provider work environments, and the realities of daily living for families. Informed by recent research, the contributors provide clear directions for policy, administration, and service-delivery reforms. Informing policy debates addressing child maltreatment and family welfare, this book will serve as a vital resource for managers, service providers, professionals, and students in the fields of social work, child and youth care, family studies, psychology, and special education.


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