Research Catalog

Title

The role of emergency care as a child welfare service / Emily Joyce Oakes and Madelyn Freundlich.

Author

Oakes, Emily Joyce.

Publication

Washington, DC : CWLA Press, c2005.

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Additional Authors

• Freundlich, Madelyn.
• Child Welfare League of America.

Description

vii, 80 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"In The Role of Emergency Care as a Child Welfare Service, researchers focus on the three primary types of emergency care services for children and youth who enter foster care: emergency shelters, emergency family foster care, and receiving centers. The report presents the findings of a small qualitative study and a series of interviews with child welfare professionals. Readers can learn about emergency care from communities that have altered or attempted to alter their placement practices for children and youth entering the foster care system. Case studies on three communities that have worked to change their placement practices and implement family foster care are also included. Finally, the authors set forth guiding principles and recommendations for quality placements for children and youth in foster care. Book jacket."--Jacket.

Subject

• Child welfare > United States
• Foster children > Services for > United States
• Youth shelters > United States
• Foster home care > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-77).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- The current knowledge base on emergency care -- The method -- Current emergency care practice -- Changes in emergency care practice : three case studies -- A synthesis of current practice in emergency care services -- Guiding principles and recommendations for quality placements and services for children in foster care -- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 1587600277 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781587600272

LCCN

^^2005013699

OCLC

60401700

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library