Research Catalog

Title

Community work approaches to child welfare / edited by Brian Wharf.

Publication

Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press, c2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

Wharf, Brian

Description

214 p.; 22 cm.

Alternative Title

Child welfare

Subject

• Community-based child welfare > Canada > Case studies
• Community-based family services > Canada > Case studies
• Community-based child welfare > Canada
• Community-based family services > Canada
• Enfant > Approche communautaire > Cas, Études de
• Famille, Services communautaires à la > Canada > Cas, Études de
• Enfants > Approche communautaire > Canada
• Famille, Services communautaires à la > Canada

Genre/Form

Case studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I. Introduction -- II. Getting to now: children in distress in Canada's past -- III. Community social work in two provinces. 1. The Neighbourhood House Project in Victoria and the Hazleton Office of the Ministry for Children and Families -- 2. Community child welfare: examples from Quebec -- IV. Community organizing in child welfare. 1. Changing local environments and developing community capacity -- 2. Child protection through strengthening communities: the Toronto Children's Aid Society -- 3. Learning from the past/visions for the future: the Black community and child welfare in Nova Scotia -- V. Community control of child welfare: two case studies of child welfare in First Nations communities. 1. Watching over families and children: Lalum'utul' Smun'eem Child and family Services -- 2. Building community in West Region Child and Family Services -- VI. Searching for common ground: family resource programs and child welfare -- VII. Building a case for community approaches to child welfare.

ISBN

1551114534 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2002279603

OCLC

• 48580011
• SCSB-11629883

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library