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Johnson, Paul; Cahn, Katharine – Child Welfare, 1995
Discusses the "Children Can't Wait" project, aimed at improving child welfare practice through improvements in attorney-social worker relationships. Describes seminars held to facilitate the project's goals. Identifies two ways to improve such relationships: multidisciplinary training and interagency collaboration. Attributes the success…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Child Welfare, Interdisciplinary Approach, Lawyers
Johnson, Roberta E. – 1980
The paper examines the surrogate parent program at Forest Haven, the District of Columbia's institution for the mentally retarded. The program provides seven major services among which are its function as an advocate for educational, court, and other personal programing and as a monitor of the educational placement of clients. Problems in the…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Welfare, Elementary Secondary Education, Helping Relationship
National Center for Child Advocacy (DHEW/OHD), Washington, DC. – 1975
This first attempt to list child advocacy programs reflects the great variety and richness of advocacy efforts throughout the nation on behalf of children and youth. The listing includes strictly defined advocacy programs--both direct service, and planning and coordinating programs, as well as other services offered by agencies without defined…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Welfare, Civil Liberties, Family Problems
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Taylor-Brown, Susan; Teeter, Judith Ann; Blackburn, Evelyn; Oinen, Linda; Wedderburn, Lennard – Child Welfare, 1998
Permanency planning to help families affected by AIDS includes case management and mental health, medical care, child welfare, and legal services. This article presents the efforts of one community in a midsize city to develop and implement a multidisciplinary coordinated plan for providing services to children affected by the illness or death of…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Agency Cooperation, Child Custody, Child Welfare
Hurt, Maure, Jr. – 1975
This state-of-the-art report provides preliminary information on the status of child abuse and neglect research projects currently in progress or recently completed. Each chapter discusses a particular research problem area and outlines the relevant demonstration projects. Chapter I describes the background of our present perception of child abuse…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Annotated Bibliographies, Child Abuse, Child Welfare
Gale, Nancy, Comp. – 1982
A bibliography and program listing surveys publications and programs dealing with welfare of American Indian children. Topics include child abuse/neglect, child development and health, parent education, counseling, social work practice among American Indians, legal/jurisdictional issues in delivering child welfare services to American Indians,…
Descriptors: Adoption, American Indians, Child Abuse, Child Advocacy