Child welfare

The United States is a country founded by immigrants, and although the United States is considered to be one of the best countries in the world, it is not perfect and neither are the immigration and child welfare policies that have been implemented over time at the federal and state level. Historically speaking, the United States had a reduction in immigration after the end of World War II, however, as time progressed and more conflicts came to be in other parts of the world, many have placed…

Integral to the New Brunswick child welfare system is the idea that family and community are the most beneficial and desirable environments in which to raise a child. The foster family is intended to act as a temporary support system for the child who can no longer remain in her home. The primary goal is to return the child to her own family as soon as possible; or, where that is not feasible, to find an alternative, yet permanent and loving arrangement in which she can develop and succeed. This…

Political factors and the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 Politically, the 1970’s were a time of social welfare reform that allowed advocates the opportunity to push for tribal sovereignty and the overall wellbeing of Indian children. The success of this period as a highpoint in social welfare was largely due to the push for domestic legislation surrounding social welfare issues like the desegregation of schools, civil rights, voting rights, and War on Poverty (Blau, Abramovitz, 2014). This…

From the New Deal to TANF, the government has enacted policy after policy to combat poverty. Work has always played a prominent role in the United States’ welfare policy and studies have shown the inverse correlation between work and poverty. The question that has arisen from this is: should work be enforced or just encouraged? Historically, conservatives have favored the former, while liberals have sided with less paternalistic methods. In contrast, some of our European peers have chosen…

such an important field and fascinating career. < h3> What is Social Work Exactly? The exact work that social workers perform depends on their specific field. For example, a Child Welfare social worker, or case worker, will spend every day dealing with foster children, bio-parents and the juvenile courts. Specifically, Child Protective Service (CPS) case workers are empowered to remove children and place them in state custody. They do this because of observable neglect, abuse, threat of…

The NASW Standards for Social Work Practice in Child Welfare are the standards in which all child welfare social workers must abide by in practice (National Association of Social Workers, 2013). Standard one states that workers shall practice ethically by using the Code of Ethics to guide practice and self-regulate personal values and ethics when understanding practice. This standard will be essential in practice as if practice is unethical, the safety and wellbeing of children will be put in…

Overview: The Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) was created under President Bill Clinton, to help those who are less fortunate and give them assistance and motivation to build a better future. This was his way of changing the current welfare system while encouraging those in need to become more self -sufficient. The CCDF evolved from policies that came before it. After World War II, there was a lot of wealth and growth in the economy, however, childcare and struggling young mothers seemed…

The “Ethical Child Welfare” lesson presented might have been improved in several ways, and the following observations of the instructor’s skills and teaching methods are discussed to develop effective strategies for improving teaching and enhancing student learning in UTSA’s graduate MSW program. First, the presentation did not distinguish between the concepts of values (things deemed significant and can include concepts like equality, honesty, education, effort, perseverance, loyalty,…

As a foster parent of approximately fifteen years, I view the child welfare system in Michigan as broken and ineffective. For years, I took children into my home only to see them returned to a home where the abuse/neglect was still prevalent; to see youth aging out of foster care without appropriate supports in place; or to see biological parents set up to fail. This happened as a result of numerous factors: a Judge not following the foster care workers recommendations; high staff turnover…

an explanation as to why it was very important to look at the factors influencing Latino immigrant families into the child welfare system were postulated. In the second chapter, a detailed analysis of the various factors were presented. In this chapter acculturation and discipline style were among the most prominent factors to affect Latino immigrant parents entering the child welfare system. In the third chapter, four different interventions were looked at and analyzed if they were effective…