This article describes a community assessment process designed to evaluate a specific child welfare jurisdiction based on the current definition of trauma-informed child welfare and its essential elements. This process has recently been developed and pilot tested within three diverse child welfare systems in the United States. The purpose of the…

This paper describes an effort to bridge research and practice in residential care through implementing a program model titled Children and Residential Experiences (CARE). The strategy involves consulting at all levels of the organization to guide personnel to incorporate CARE evidence-based principles into daily practice, and fostering an…

The theory of foster-adoptive programs is explained and analyzed. The term "flexible family resource" describes the acceptance by trained families of children who have not yet had parental rights terminated, and thus may return to their biological parents at some time. Although this idea is promising, further research is indicated. (DG)

Describes an Israeli experimental program in which homemakers are trained to assist in the care of retarded children remaining at home. (CM)

Describes the role of the school social worker in Project Early Help, a demonstration program operated by the Peoria, Illinois, Public Schools for handicapped children, ages 3 through 8. (ED)

Describes the development and implementation of a sex education program for emotionally disturbed children aged 6 through 18 in a residential center. The training of child care workers and the worker's role as a teacher is emphasized. (CM)

Examines the conflicting views in the literature on the effects of prenatal exposure to drugs and reports on an early intervention project in a New York City agency. The rate of developmental delay was found to be virtually the same for children with and without prenatal exposure to drugs. (TJQ)

Describes an adoption program, aggressively carried out, which not only achieved its goal of reducing the number of children in longterm foster care but had beneficial effects on other services by the agency. (MS)

An effective model for training foster parents, developed jointly by an early childhood program and a foster care agency, is briefly discussed. (Author/SE)

Describes a foster care agency set up and managed entirely by foster parents, and discusses the roles and relationships of the foster parents and social workers in the agency. (Author/SE)

Discusses the function of a screening unit in the Bronx Field Office of Special Services for Children. The screening unit determines whether suspect child-abuse reports are unfounded or genuine. (Author/DB)

Describes the placement evaluation program developed by Children's Garden, a private nonprofit agency operating a family-model treatment group home for children in kindergarten through seventh grades. (RH)

Describes clinical uses of the Life Story Book, a technique to help foster children connect their life experiences. The technique can reeducate children toward a more positive self-image. (Author/DB)

Play group therapy sessions were held in an attempt to improve impulse control; peer, social, and relationship skills; expression of repressed anger; feelings for self; and cooperative play among five latency-aged boys. Many of the goals set for the children in the group were reached. (Author/RH)

Describes group education program for adoptive parents developed by a social service agency. The program aims at assuaging the fears raised in adoptive parents by the controversy over sealed records and the adoptee's search for biological parents. (CM)