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Quality Improvement and Evaluation in Child and Family Services: Managing into the Next Century.
Pecora, Peter J., Ed.; Seelig, William R., Ed.; Zirps, Fotena A., Ed.; Davis, Sally M., Ed. – 1996
Based on the work of the National Council on Research in Child Welfare (NCRCW), this handbook is designed to help social service agency executives cope with changing times for child welfare agencies, strengthen traditional services to meet today's needs, and analyze and plan for the future. The manual aims to demystify quality improvement theory…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Child Welfare, Program Administration, Program Development
Information Systems in Child, Youth, and Family Agencies: Planning, Implementation, and Service Enhancement.
Grasso, Anthony J., Ed.; Epstein, Irwin, Ed. – 1993
This book describes Boysville's 5-year effort to design, implement, and evaluate an agency-based computerized management information, program evaluation, and clinical decision-making system, BOMIS (Boysville Management Information System). The goal of BOMIS is the integration of the four intervention programs, through the collection, analysis,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Welfare, Computer Software Development, Family Programs
Planning and Implementing Child Abuse and Neglect Service Programs: The Experience of Eleven Demonstration Projects.
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National Center for Health Services Research and Development (DHEW/PHS), Rockville, MD. – 1976
Discussed are practical factors involved in planning and carrying out child abuse and neglect treatment programs. It is explained that the information is based on the experience of 11 demonstration projects in 10 states. Chapter 1 details planning theories and offers a model for program planning. Chapter 2 is designed to inform planners of typical…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Child Welfare, Community Programs
The Destruction of American Indian Families.
Unger, Steven, Ed. – 1977
Responding to the need for a comprehensive source of information regarding the separation of American Indian children from their families, this book presents essays which: examine the Indian child-welfare crisis in contemporary, legal, and historical perspectives; document the human cost of the crisis to Indian parents, children, and communities;…
Descriptors: American Indians, Books, Child Welfare, Community Action
Creating a Foster Parent-Agency Handbook.
Stone, Helen D.; Hunzeker, Jeanne M. – 1974
Agencies and foster parents can use the framework provided in this handbook to prepare their own handbook and establish clear roles and expectations for persons involved in providing foster family care. The handbook is meant to be a reference guide, not to offer solutions to problems or answer policy questions. A list of suggested topics for a…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Child Welfare, Community Resources, Contracts
Before Head Start: The Iowa Station and America's Children.
Cravens, Hamilton – 1993
This book chronicles the evolution of the child welfare movement of the early 20th century into the science of child development, from both the national perspective and the perspective of the field's best-known research center, the University of Iowa's Child Welfare Research Station. The book first explores the child welfare movement as it evolved…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Child Welfare, Childhood Needs