Publisher's Synopsis
Contents: Charlotte's Web: The Present and Future of Family Services; Integrating Employment, Economic Supports and Family Capacity Building; Addressing Poverty Issues in Child Welfare: Effective Use of TANF as a Prevention Resource; Mental Health Assessment and Environmentally Inclusive Treatment for Abused Children and Low-Income, Multiethnic, and/or Multiproblem Families; Issues of Crime and Delinquency for Child Welfare; Violence in the Family: A Story in Need of an Ending; Child Welfare and Substance Abuse: Toward Partnerships with Parents; Competent Practice: Diversity, Racism and Heterosexism; Walking in Moccasins: Indian Child Welfare in the 21st Century; Spiritual Issues in Practice with Vulnerable Children and Families; Parenting, Caregiving Stress, and Child Abuse and Neglect; What Hurts and What Helps: Listening to Families to Build 21st Century Child Welfare Reforms; Gaining the Collaborative Advantage and Promoting Systems and Cross-Systems Change; Parent to Parent and Family to Family: Innovative Self-Help and Mutual Support; In the Best Interests of the Child: Youth Development as a Child Welfare Support and Resource; Introducing Child Welfare Neighbourhood Teams th