A Critical Look at the Child Welfare System
Caseworker Turnover
1. Alan Lupo, "We're Failing Our Weakest Kids," Boston Globe, (April 14, 1996)
2. Christina Robb, "Foster Care Agencies Feeling the Squeeze," Boston Globe, (April 16, 1990)
3. Dan Eggen, "County to Expand Beleaguered Child Protective Services," Washington Post, (October 15, 1997) p. V03
4. Peggy Rogers and Andres Viglucci, "HRS 'On the Brink of Disaster," Miami Herald, (May 24, 1992)
5. Sally Kestin, "Foster Care Crises Putting Kids at Risk," Sun-Sentinel, (May 31, 1998).
6. General Accounting Office,
Child Welfare: Complex Needs Strain Capacity to Provide Services, Letter Report, Reference: GAO/HEHS-95-208 (September 26, 1995).7. Douglas J. Besharov with Lisa A. Laumann, "Child Abuse Reporting," Social Science and Modern Society, Vol. 33, No. 4, May/June, 1996. 8. National Conference of State Legislatures, "Assisting State Legislatures in the Reform of Child Protective Services," project report, as formerly located on the NCSL internet home page.
9. 1989-90 San Diego County Grand Jury, Breaking the Cycle of Child Abuse, Report No. 15, June 6, 1990. p. 9. 10. Office of State Auditor, A Review of Management Controls at the Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services, Report 95-003. 11. Prepared statement of the Child Welfare League of America to the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, hearing on Reasonable Efforts, 1996, as appears in article posting "CWLA on Reasonable Efforts," on CASANet Internet Home Page.
12. Victoria Benning and Diego Ribadeneira, "DDS Wrong to Remove 'Mikey'," Boston Globe, (February 12, 1993) 13. John M. Hagedorn, Forsaking Our Children: Bureaucracy and Reform in the Child Welfare System, (Chicago: Lake View Press, 1995) pp. 51 - 53. 14. David Cox, "HRS report: Demote Two Managers," Bradenton Herald, (July 25, 1996) 15. Santa Barbara County Grand Jury, Report, Heading: Child Protective Services, 1990-91. pp. 69 - 72.
16.United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, decision, LaShawn A. v. Sharon Pratt Kelly, et al., Docket No. 91-7159, April 16, 1993.
17. Associated Press, "New Training Expected for S.C. Foster Parents," Charlotte Observer, (November 5, 1993) 18. Susan Wells, "Child Protective Services: Research For The Future," Child Welfare, (September 1, 1994)
19. George Frank, "Treatment Needs of Children in Foster Care," American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, v. 50, No. 2 (April 1980). p. 262.
20.
Testimony of David Liederman, Executive Director Child Welfare League of America, State of Child Welfare Services, hearing, Subcommittee of Human Resources of the Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives, June 21, 1993.21. See for example Joseph Persico, Who Knows? Who Cares?: Forgotten Children in Foster Care (New York: National Commission on Children in Need of Foster Parents, 1979), p. 11.
22. Deborah Shapiro, Agencies and Foster Children (New York: Columbia University Press, 1976), p. 121.
23. Margot Hornblower, "Fixing the System," TIME Magazine, (December 11, 1995)
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