The systematic mistreatment of children in the foster care system : through the cracks / Lois A. Weinberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weinberg, Lois A.

Series:

Maltreatment, trauma, and interpersonal aggression

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foster children--United States.

Foster children.

United States.

Foster home care--United States.

Foster home care.

Abused children--Services for--United States.

Abused children.

Abused children--Services for.

Child welfare--United States.

Child welfare.

Physical Description:

xvi, 338 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Haworth Press, [2007]

Summary:

Appropriate placement and services for children in foster care typically requires the coordination and collaboration of several different agencies. The Systematic Mistreatment of Children in the Foster Care System shows how these agencies frequently fail to meet their legal obligations to children in the system and what can be done to address these failures and the outcomes they produce.

Contents:

The child protective system

The educational system

Sharon : preventing placement in a state psychiatric hospital

John : struggling to stabilize placement with a parent

James : stabilizing placement with relatives

Silvia and Carlos : placing siblings together in a foster home

Robert : living at the county emergency shelter

Debra : supplementing the appropriate program

Patty : funding a unique program

Anthony : advocating for foster home placement

David : working with a court-appointed special advocate to reunite separated siblings

Directions for change.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-321) and index.

ISBN:

9780789023926

078902392X

9780789023933

0789023938

OCLC:

104863905