Child welfare organizations: Do specialization and service integration impact placement decisions?

2018 ◽  
Vol 76 ◽  
pp. 573-582 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carrie Smith ◽  
John Fluke ◽  
Barbara Fallon ◽  
Faye Mishna ◽  
Barbara Decker Pierce
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Service Integration ◽  
Placement Decisions ◽  
Child Welfare Organizations

Parental Rights and the Temporality of Attachment: Law, Kinship, and Child Welfare in Japan

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 469-493
Author(s):  
Kathryn E. Goldfarb
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Foster Parents ◽  
Regulatory Mechanisms ◽  
Parental Rights ◽  
Japanese Child ◽  
Japanese Family ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Placement Decisions ◽  
The Right ◽  
Relationship Of

Abstract This article explores the legal norms and regulatory mechanisms in Japan that structure child welfare placement decisions, focusing specifically on the legal category of “parental rights.” It is suggested that the ways child welfare officers and caregivers understand the concept of “rights”—both those of the biological parent(s) and the child—construe kinship relationships as problems to be managed, but with a particular orientation toward what is called in the article the temporality of attachment. Child welfare caseworkers’ understandings of legal categories, processes, and forms of documentation (such as the Japanese family registry) produce particular forms of kinship that prioritize a child's possible future relationship with an absent parent, above and beyond the day-to-day relationships children might develop with alternative caregivers such as foster parents. Despite the fact that the author's Japanese interlocutors often described kinship as an immutable relationship of blood ties, the author shows how kinship is in fact produced through specific encounters between (mostly absent) parents and their children, child welfare caseworkers, and foster and institutional caregivers, scaffolded by their engagement with legal and bureaucratic regimes. The article explores what parenthood means within Japanese child welfare, both as a temporalized form of relationality and as a set of legally structured claims to the right to care.

Exploring Alternate Explanations for Agency-Level Effects in Placement Decisions Regarding Aboriginal Children

2020 ◽  
pp. 215-234
Author(s):  
Barbara A. Fallon ◽  
John D. Fluke ◽  
Martin Chabot ◽  
Cindy Blackstock ◽  
Vandna Sinha ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Child Welfare System ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Placement Decisions ◽  
Aboriginal Children

This chapter summarizes a series of published papers that used data from the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (CIS) to explore the influence of case and organizational characteristics on decisions to place Aboriginal children in out-of-home placements. The premise of the analyses was that these influences were consistent with the framework of the Decision-Making Ecology. In Canada, Aboriginal children are overrepresented at all points of child welfare decision-making: investigation, substantiation, and placement in out-of-home care. Case factors accounting for the overrepresentation of Aboriginal children at all service points in the child welfare system include poverty, poor housing, and substance misuse, and these factors, when coupled with inequitable resources for First Nations children residing on reserves, result in the overrepresentation of Aboriginal children in the Canadian child welfare system. For this study, the authors examine case characteristics and organizational factors in a multilevel context, hypothesizing that children are more likely to be placed out of home in agencies that serve a relatively high proportion of Aboriginal children. According to the statistical models presented, the most important of these factors is whether the provincial government operates the child welfare agency. As with the proportion of Aboriginal children on the caseload, the risk of a child being placed is greater in government-run agencies compared to agencies operated by private funders. Further analysis needs to be conducted to fully understand individual- and organizational-level variables that may influence /decisions regarding placement of Aboriginal children.

scholarly journals Finding “Health” and “Meaning” in Texas-Sized Turnover: Application of Seminal Management Principles for Administration and Research in U.S. Public Child Welfare Agencies

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Willis ◽  
Nancy Chavkin ◽  
Patrick Leung
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Organizational Outcomes ◽  
The United States ◽  
Turnover Rates ◽  
High Turnover ◽  
Child Welfare Agencies ◽  
Public Child Welfare ◽  
Child Welfare Organizations ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Welfare Agencies

Public child welfare agencies in the United States have struggled with high turnover rates, especially among caseworkers. Research has explored turnover in terms of negative organizational outcomes, and efforts have been developed to reduce overall turnover rates. However, there has been little change in turnover rates in the last 30 years. The public child welfare system is inclined to higher turnover due to the unique nature of the work. Efforts to reduce the overall turnover rate fail to recognize the heterogeneity and healthy aspects of turnover unique to public child welfare organizations, which present challenges for both practice and research. By critically questioning how turnover is socially constructed, measured, and addressed, and integrating seminal management principles, a more meaningful metric can be developed. These challenges are explored, and recommendations are proposed for administration and research that include reconstructing and applying a new perspective on turnover to inform and evaluate initiatives that can reduce the impact of dysfunctional turnover within public child welfare organizations.

Designing Evaluations in Child Welfare Organizations: An Approach for Administrators

2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Lawrence ◽  
Jessica Strolin-Goltzman ◽  
James Caringi ◽  
Nancy Claiborne ◽  
Mary McCarthy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Child Welfare Organizations
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