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Briggs, Harold Eugene; McBeath, Bowen – Child Welfare, 2010
The lack of culturally appropriate health and mental health care has contributed to the large number of African American youth and families involved in the child welfare system. This article reviews the consequences of the insufficient access to culturally sensitive, evidence-supported interventions for African American foster youth. The authors…
Descriptors: Evidence, Health Services, African Americans, Mental Health Programs

Webster, Carole T. – Child Welfare, 1974
Describes how a social worker made a group treatment program a permanent part of a small, rural, junior high school in order to aid students with behavioral problems. (Author/ED)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Discipline, Group Dynamics

McKelvy, Doris – Child Welfare, 1981
Due to a shift in clientele from Whites to Blacks, many voluntary child welfare agencies have begun to alter agency structure, orientation, and practices. Community outreach, board roles, and staff roles are discussed. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Agency Role, Black Youth, Blacks

Van Leeuwen, Jamie – Child Welfare, 2004
This article features three housing programs designed to target the needs of youth aging out of child welfare. One program combines housing and treatment to move substance-dependent youth off the streets; one combines the resources of Urban Peak, the only licensed homeless and runaway youth shelter in Colorado, with the Denver Department of Human…
Descriptors: Program Development, Costs, Runaways, Private Sector
Berberet, Heather M. – Child Welfare, 2006
Needs assessments require staff with the necessary expertise to design the study, collect the data, analyze the data, and present results. They require money, time, and persistence, because the people one wishes to assess often are difficult to access. This article argues for the centrality of a well-done needs assessment when developing services…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Needs Assessment, Program Development, Evaluation Methods