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Collins-Camargo, Crystal; Millar, Kenneth – Child Welfare, 2012
This article describes qualitative findings regarding lessons learned from research and demonstration projects in four states focused on the implementation of clinical supervision within their public child welfare agencies. This was part of a larger mixed methods study of the effectiveness of these new clinical supervision models on practice,…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Public Agencies, Supervision, Welfare Services
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Ryan, Francis J. – Child Welfare, 1980
Describes how several voluntary and other contractor agencies in Washington, D.C. developed a consortium to plan and implement a comprehensive child care program providing permanency planning for public wards in their care. Problems of coordinating public and voluntary service sectors are discussed. The consortium's charter is appended. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Contracts, Coordination, Program Implementation
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Wells, Kathleen; Reshotko, Paula – Child Welfare, 1986
Describes program assumptions and goals, key design features, and implementation problems of an agency-supported independent adoption program called cooperative adoption. The program's impact upon an agency's traditional adoption program is discussed, as well as concerns that have been raised about the ethicality of independent adoption practices.…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Adoption, Agencies, Agency Role
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Rindfleisch, Nolan; Hicho, Donna – Child Welfare, 1987
Presents the results of telephone interviews, self-questionnaires, and site visits of 48 state child protective service offices regarding policies, procedures and protocols for handling complaints of abuse and neglect in children's institutions. Institutional child protection is seen as a relatively unformed appendage of interfamiliar child…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Child Welfare
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Ross, Timothy; Conger, Dylan; Armstrong, Molly – Child Welfare, 2002
Project Confirm aims to address the problem of foster children ending up in detention because of police and probation officers' difficulty in locating guardians to appear on behalf of arrested children. Project Confirm locates juveniles' caseworkers and informs them of their legal responsibilities. The program reached most of its implementation…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Caseworkers, Child Welfare, Foster Children