The Child Welfare Challenge

Using both historical and contemporary contexts, The Child Welfare Challenge examines major policy practice and research issues as they jointly shape child welfare practice and its future. This text focuses on families and children whose primary recourse to services has been through publicly funded child welfare agencies, and considers historical areas of service¿foster care and adoptions, in-home family-centered services, child-protective services, and residential services¿where social work has an important role.