| dcfs family support/economic stability: Parenting the Hurt Child Gregory Keck, Regina Kupecky, 2014-02-27 The world is full of hurt children, and bringing one into your home can quickly derail the easy family life you once knew. Get effective suggestions, wisdom, and advice to parent the hurt child in your life. The best hope for tragedy prevention is knowledge! Updated and revised. |
| dcfs family support/economic stability: The Nurturing Parenting Programs Stephen J. Bavolek, 2000 |
| dcfs family support/economic stability: Title XX Social Services , 1980 |
| dcfs family support/economic stability: Parenting the Sexually Abused Child , 1991 |
| dcfs family support/economic stability: Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in the Child Welfare System Alan J. Dettlaff, 2020-11-27 This volume examines existing research documenting racial disproportionality and disparities in child welfare systems, the underlying factors that contribute to these phenomena and the harms that result at both the individual and community levels. It reviews multiple forms of interventions designed to prevent and reduce disproportionality, particularly in states and jurisdictions that have seen meaningful change. With contributions from authorities and leaders in the field, this volume serves as the authoritative volume on the complex issue of child maltreatment and child welfare. It offers a central source of information for students and practitioners who are seeking understanding on how structural and institutional racism can be addressed in public systems. |
| dcfs family support/economic stability: Parenting Matters National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Board on Children, Youth, and Families, Committee on Supporting the Parents of Young Children, 2016-11-21 Decades of research have demonstrated that the parent-child dyad and the environment of the familyâ€which includes all primary caregiversâ€are at the foundation of children's well- being and healthy development. From birth, children are learning and rely on parents and the other caregivers in their lives to protect and care for them. The impact of parents may never be greater than during the earliest years of life, when a child's brain is rapidly developing and when nearly all of her or his experiences are created and shaped by parents and the family environment. Parents help children build and refine their knowledge and skills, charting a trajectory for their health and well-being during childhood and beyond. The experience of parenting also impacts parents themselves. For instance, parenting can enrich and give focus to parents' lives; generate stress or calm; and create any number of emotions, including feelings of happiness, sadness, fulfillment, and anger. Parenting of young children today takes place in the context of significant ongoing developments. These include: a rapidly growing body of science on early childhood, increases in funding for programs and services for families, changing demographics of the U.S. population, and greater diversity of family structure. Additionally, parenting is increasingly being shaped by technology and increased access to information about parenting. Parenting Matters identifies parenting knowledge, attitudes, and practices associated with positive developmental outcomes in children ages 0-8; universal/preventive and targeted strategies used in a variety of settings that have been effective with parents of young children and that support the identified knowledge, attitudes, and practices; and barriers to and facilitators for parents' use of practices that lead to healthy child outcomes as well as their participation in effective programs and services. This report makes recommendations directed at an array of stakeholders, for promoting the wide-scale adoption of effective programs and services for parents and on areas that warrant further research to inform policy and practice. It is meant to serve as a roadmap for the future of parenting policy, research, and practice in the United States. |
| dcfs family support/economic stability: Human Services Plan Illinois. Department of Employment Security, 1996 |
| dcfs family support/economic stability: Handbook of Illinois Government Illinois. Office of Secretary of State, 1993 |
| dcfs family support/economic stability: Hazardous Wastes and Hazardous Materials Hazardous Materials Control Research Institute, 1989-01-01 |
| dcfs family support/economic stability: Public Administration J. C. N. Raadschelders, 2013-05-16 The book examines the history and development of public administration, the study of the internal structure and functioning of government and its interaction with society and its citizens. It surveys different approaches to the field and the methodological and epistemological issues surrounding an interdisciplinary, applied social science. |
| dcfs family support/economic stability: Public Administration Jos C. N. Raadschelders, 2011-10-27 Public administration seeks to develop a comprehensive understanding of the internal structure and functioning of government, in all its complexity, and its interaction with society and its citizens. Public Administration: The Interdisciplinary Study of Government provides an account of the discipline, considering its history, growth, boundaries, and tunderlying assumptions. It tracks the emergence of the field against a background of the expanding conception of the state and the growth of public services, and situates it within the three branches of knowledge - natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. It maps out the sources of knowledge of public administration, and how this is fragmented within the discipline's specializations, the social sciences, and government and society at large. It examines how leading authors map the discipline, the application of different theories, the associated schools of thought and intellectual debates, and the role of knowledge integration. Scholars in public administration have initiated much debate as to whether it should be treated as a science, a craft or profession, or an art. This book argues that to develop a comprehensive understanding of government and its complexity requires a truly interdisciplinary approach. |
| dcfs family support/economic stability: State of Illinois Report on Projected Expenditures for the Title XX Social Services Block Grant , 2006 |
| dcfs family support/economic stability: Shattered Bonds Dorothy Roberts, 2002-12-25 Shattered Bonds is a stirring account of a worsening American social crisis--the disproportionate representation of black children in the U.S. foster care system and its effects on black communities and the country as a whole. Tying the origins and impact of this disparity to racial injustice, Dorothy Roberts contends that child-welfare policy reflects a political choice to address startling rates of black child poverty by punishing parents instead of tackling poverty's societal roots. Using conversations with mothers battling the Chicago child-welfare system for custody of their children, along with national data, Roberts levels a powerful indictment of racial disparities in foster care and tells a moving story of the women and children who earn our respect in their fight to keep their families intact. |
| dcfs family support/economic stability: Re-Visioning Public Health Approaches for Protecting Children Bob Lonne, Deb Scott, Daryl Higgins, Todd I. Herrenkohl, 2019-04-26 This volume provides readers around the globe with a focused and comprehensive examination of how to prevent and respond to child maltreatment using evidence-informed public health approaches and programs that meet the needs of vulnerable children, and struggling families and communities. It outlines the system failures of contemporary forensically-driven child protection practice. Detailed guidance is provided about how to re-think earlier intervention strategies, and establish stronger and more effective programs and services that prevent maltreatment at the population level. Service user and stakeholder perspectives, particularly from marginalized groups including Indigenous peoples, highlight how public health approaches can better support families and keep children safe. Case studies from different countries grapple with the fraught nature of large system change and the various strategies needed to effect multi-level reforms. Presenting the reader with an array of innovative services used in different institutional and community context, this volume confronts the complex challenges found in implementing successful prevention programs that are aligned with diverse cultural and political environments and community expectations. |
| dcfs family support/economic stability: Illinois Welfare and Rehabilitation Services Plan Illinois. Dept. of Human Services, 1976 |
| dcfs family support/economic stability: The Children's Bureau Legacy Administration on Children, Youth and Families, The Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2013-04-01 Comprehensive history of the Children’s Bureau from 1912-2012 in eBook form that shares the legacy of this landmark agency that established the first Federal Government programs, research and social reform initiatives aimed to improve the safety, permanency and well-being of children, youth and families. In addition to bios of agency heads and review of legislation and publications, this important book provides a critical look at the evolution of the Nation and its treatment of children as it covers often inspiring and sometimes heart-wrenching topics such as: child labor; the Orphan Trains, adoption and foster care; infant and maternal mortality and childhood diseases; parenting, infant and child care education; the role of women's clubs and reformers; child welfare standards; Aid to Dependent Children; Depression relief; children of migrants and minorities (African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans), including Indian Boarding Schools and Indian Adoption Program; disabled children care; children in wartime including support of military families and World War II refugee children; Juvenile delinquency; early childhood education Head Start; family planning; child abuse and neglect; natural disaster recovery; and much more. Child welfare and related professionals, legislators, educators, researchers and advocates, university school of social work faculty and staff, libraries, and others interested in social work related to children, youth and families, particularly topics such as preventing child abuse and neglect, foster care, and adoption will be interested in this comprehensive history of the Children's Bureau that has been funded by the U.S. Federal Government since 1912. |
| dcfs family support/economic stability: Prevention Networks , 1986 |
| dcfs family support/economic stability: Press Summary - Illinois Information Service Illinois Information Service, 1999-08-17 |
| dcfs family support/economic stability: Behind from the Start Lenette Azzi-Lessing, 2017 Today there are nearly six million children under the age of 5 living in poverty in the world's richest country. Behind from the Start examines what lies behind the stubbornly high rate of poverty among young children in the U.S. and its consequences. It explains the multiple ways in which early-life poverty robs millions of children of a promising future, and calls for dramatic changes in how we approach this problem. |
| dcfs family support/economic stability: Report to the General Assembly, Child Care Programs, Illinois Department of Public Aid Illinois. Department of Public Aid, 1994 |
| dcfs family support/economic stability: Host Bibliographic Record for Boundwith Item Barcode 30112048652694 and Others , 2013 |
| dcfs family support/economic stability: Family Welfare Reform Act United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation, 1988 |
| dcfs family support/economic stability: Child and Family Services Improvement Act of 2006 United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, 2006 |
| dcfs family support/economic stability: Illinois Human Services Plan Illinois. Department of Public Aid, 1990 |
| dcfs family support/economic stability: Handbook of Violence Risk Assessment and Treatment Joel T. Andrade, PhD, LICSW, 2009-03-23 This book describes violence risk assessment in both juveniles and adults, incorporating dynamic and static factors, along with treatment alternativesÖ..Research and practice are combined quite nicely, along with assessment and treatment. There is something for everyone here. Score: 91, 4 stars --Doody's Forensic clinicians will find this book to be a valuable reference book as well as a very useful clinical treatment guide relevant to violent offenders. --Jeffrey L. Metzner, MD Mental health practitioners are confronted with the difficult task of assessing the risk that offenders pose to the general public. This comprehensive volume provides practitioners with the knowledge and insight necessary to conduct violence risk assessments, and to synthesize clinical and research data into comprehensive reports and oral testimony. Violence risk assessment requires a well-formulated and comprehensive risk management plan. Andrade and the authors present that plan, and demonstrate how it can be clearly implemented in practice. With numerous clinical case studies, this book illustrates the process of conducting violence risk assessments, outlines the tools used in these evaluations, and explains how information is translated into an overall assessment and guide for future risk management. Key Features: Investigates the etiology of violent behavior, and provides a review and analysis of recent literature Discusses both adult and youth violence, providing insight into the developmental course of aggressive behavior throughout the lifespan Contains chapters on special populations, including female offenders, intimate partners, psychopathic and mentally ill offenders, and sexually abusive youth Useful to practitioners from various fields including social work, psychology, and psychiatry, as well as students in these disciplines Ultimately, this book provides practitioners with an understanding of risk assessment, treatment, and risk management, serving as an authoritative guide to applying empirical findings to mental health practice. |
| dcfs family support/economic stability: Foster Care Independence Act of 1999 United States, 1999 |
| dcfs family support/economic stability: New Directions in Child Abuse and Neglect Research National Research Council, Institute of Medicine, Committee on Law and Justice, Board on Children, Youth, and Families, Committee on Child Maltreatment Research, Policy, and Practice for the Next Decade: Phase II, 2014-03-25 Each year, child protective services receive reports of child abuse and neglect involving six million children, and many more go unreported. The long-term human and fiscal consequences of child abuse and neglect are not relegated to the victims themselves-they also impact their families, future relationships, and society. In 1993, the National Research Council (NRC) issued the report, Under-standing Child Abuse and Neglect, which provided an overview of the research on child abuse and neglect. New Directions in Child Abuse and Neglect Research updates the 1993 report and provides new recommendations to respond to this public health challenge. According to this report, while there has been great progress in child abuse and neglect research, a coordinated, national research infrastructure with high-level federal support needs to be established and implemented immediately. New Directions in Child Abuse and Neglect Research recommends an actionable framework to guide and support future child abuse and neglect research. This report calls for a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to child abuse and neglect research that examines factors related to both children and adults across physical, mental, and behavioral health domains-including those in child welfare, economic support, criminal justice, education, and health care systems-and assesses the needs of a variety of subpopulations. It should also clarify the causal pathways related to child abuse and neglect and, more importantly, assess efforts to interrupt these pathways. New Directions in Child Abuse and Neglect Research identifies four areas to look to in developing a coordinated research enterprise: a national strategic plan, a national surveillance system, a new generation of researchers, and changes in the federal and state programmatic and policy response. |
| dcfs family support/economic stability: The tenth (eighteenth, twenty-seventh) annual report London Hibernian society, for establishing schools and circulating the holy Scriptures in Ireland, 1833 |
| dcfs family support/economic stability: Solution-based Casework William C. Barrett, 2020-08-13 Solution-based casework is an approach to assessment, case planning, and case management that combines what we know from clinical social work with what we value about sound social work practice. It is grounded in family-centered social work and draws from clinical approaches within social work and mental health. By integrating problem- and solution-focused approaches that form the clinical and social work traditions, treatment partnerships are more easily formed between family, caseworker, and service provider. Solution-Based Casework is a skill-based, practice-oriented text that provides the specific guidance that students and new practitioners need in order to make sense quickly of the complex tasks of assessment and case planning in child welfare. The book flows out of a long practice experience, and was developed in consultation with workers and supervisors who were attempting to remedy problems viewed as contributing to recurrent abuse and neglect. It seeks to end adversarial relationships in casework and advocates case plans based on specific outcome skills rather than on those written with vague outcome goals measuring attendance in counseling. It serves as a common conceptual framework for integrating disparate segments of a response network, thereby allowing all providers in a therapeutic system to work toward common goals. The text is divided into three sections. In Section I the conceptual history and theoretical foundations of solution-based casework are presented so that the reader can place this approach to casework within the ongoing professional conversation about what constitutes sound practice. Section II addresses issues of assessment and case planning. Section III focuses on case management issues and how treatment team members experience a solution-based casework approach. |
| dcfs family support/economic stability: The children's plan Great Britain: Department for Children, Schools and Families, 2007-12-11 The Children's Plan, conceived after consultation with both parents and professionals, sets out the Government's ambitions for improving children and young people's lives over the next decade. The six strategic objectives are to: secure the health and wellbeing of children and young people; safeguard the young and vulnerable; achieve world class standards; close the gap in educational achievement for children from disadvantaged backgrounds; ensuring young people are participating in achieving their potential to 18 and beyond; and keeping children and young people on the path to success. The ambition depends on all children's services working together at the local level and the final chapter looks at the systems which are needed for this to happen |
| dcfs family support/economic stability: From Neurons to Neighborhoods National Research Council, Institute of Medicine, Board on Children, Youth, and Families, Committee on Integrating the Science of Early Childhood Development, 2000-11-13 How we raise young children is one of today's most highly personalized and sharply politicized issues, in part because each of us can claim some level of expertise. The debate has intensified as discoveries about our development-in the womb and in the first months and years-have reached the popular media. How can we use our burgeoning knowledge to assure the well-being of all young children, for their own sake as well as for the sake of our nation? Drawing from new findings, this book presents important conclusions about nature-versus-nurture, the impact of being born into a working family, the effect of politics on programs for children, the costs and benefits of intervention, and other issues. The committee issues a series of challenges to decision makers regarding the quality of child care, issues of racial and ethnic diversity, the integration of children's cognitive and emotional development, and more. Authoritative yet accessible, From Neurons to Neighborhoods presents the evidence about brain wiring and how kids learn to speak, think, and regulate their behavior. It examines the effect of the climate-family, child care, community-within which the child grows. |
| dcfs family support/economic stability: What is Adoption? For Kids! Jeanette Yoffe, 2021-11 This work provides a deeper understanding of how the adoption process works and supports children with the feelings they have about adoption. Mental health interventions provided. |
| dcfs family support/economic stability: Action Transmittal United States. Office of Child Support Enforcement, |
| dcfs family support/economic stability: Children in Foster Care David Fanshel, Eugene B. Shinn, |
| dcfs family support/economic stability: Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect Through Parent Education N. Dickon Reppucci, Preston A. Britner, Jennifer L. Woolard, 1997 This unique volume outlines an empowering approach to service delivery in child abuse prevention programs. Using knowledge gained from research on 25 distinct parenting programs, the authors provide detailed case studies and dozens of practical suggestions for planning, evaluating, and strengthening parent education programming. Convenient appendices offer a sample program curriculum, targeted handouts for program personnel, and comprehensive lists of program evaluation measures. |
| dcfs family support/economic stability: Legal Resource Manual , 1990 |
| dcfs family support/economic stability: Confronting African-American Issues Illinois Legislative Black Caucus. Conference, 1990 |
| dcfs family support/economic stability: Mason's Manual of Legislative Procedure Paul Mason, 2020 |
| dcfs family support/economic stability: Crime Prevention Karen Evans, 2011-01-19 How do we reduce and prevent crime? This is a question with which governments, academics and criminal justice professionals have been grappling for decades. Crime Prevention explores the legislative developments, policy changes and practical strategies that have been put in place in recent years in an attempt to manage the level of crime in our society. The book also assesses how governments' approaches to serious crime, the war on terror, human rights and race and immigration policies have influenced ideas about community safety and crime prevention. It offers a handy glossary, along with suggestions for further reading, in order to enhance understanding of critical issues. Accessible and compelling, this book is essential reading for students of criminology, criminal justice and social policy. It is also an indispensable analytical tool for professionals working within the criminal justice arena. |
| dcfs family support/economic stability: Wisconsin Model Early Learning Standards 5th Edition Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, 2017 |
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