Final Flashcards
(29 cards)
Home builders model
Intensive in home crisis intervention and education program for families
What is family preservation?
Prevent placement before removing child agencies are to show the courts that they made reasonable efforts to preserve the family and offer services to parents
Evaluations for family preservation programs
Cost effective families were satisfied
Family preservation for substance affect families
Parents need treatment first they need on going services
US policy on kinship care act 1997
Informal care outside child welfare system
Formal car made throat child welfare system
Where did US get idea for kinship care?
New Zealand
Problem with kinship
Often need other resources $
Indian child welfare act
Highlighted the importance of kinship networks in child placement for entire child welfare system reversed policies separating Indian child from family
Adoption and safe families act
Act emphasized the child’s safety in the home
Term parental rights
Permanency
Annual report
Orphan trains
30000 children were place in family homes by way of orphan trains
Family foster care placement
Considered appropriate for majority of children that need to be placed outside of the home
Special needs adoption
Children who require special efforts to be placed in adoptive homes
Cooperative or open adoption
Not confidential
Transracial adoption
Adoption of a child of one race by a parent of another race no significant difference with any other adoption
Reason youths offenders move to adult court
Controlled substances
Child advocacy
Making organizations such as schools responsible to children
Child advocacy basic assumptions
Children have basic needs
Children’s defense fund
Nonprofit organization committed to long range systematic advocacy to bring about reforms in behalf of children
Marian wright Edelman
Founded CDF in 1973 dynamic and highly effective advocate for children
Compassion fatigue
Burden that helping professionals feel from overexposure to clients traumatic events
US Supreme Court v. Kent and Gault v. US
Right to due process
Diversion
Program to refer children into competing programs
Status offenses
Acts only committed by juveniles like running away truancy
Delinquent acts
Burglary and disorderly conduct most common forms
