Case Management Tools and Resources Compendium
Members of the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance’s Case Management Interest Group developed this Compendium to share existing best practice case management tools and resources.
Core Concepts and Principles of Effective Case Management: Approaches for the Social Service Workforce
Developed by members of the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance’s Case Management Interest Group, this resource aims to define case management.
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Shared Family Care: Providing Services to Parents and Children Placed Together in Out-of-Home Care
This article, a chapter from the book Family Foster Care in the Next Century, describes several innovative types of shared family care arrangements that demonstrate promise in the protection of children and the promotion of family well-being.
Family Foster Care in the Next Century
The central theme of this volume is accountability for outcomes, certainly a current driving force in child welfare as well as in other public and private service fields.
Completing the Evaluation Triangle for the Next Century: Measuring Child “Well-Being” in Family Foster Care
This article, a chapter in the book Family Foster Care in the Next Century, describes how child well-being has been conceptualized and measured in research on family foster care, and discusses the essential dimensions that should be included in a useful measure of child well-being.
The grand challenges of social work: Deaf children in the child welfare system
The current paper explores the accessible and equitable services to deaf children in the child welfare system, in terms of the Social Work Grand Challenge: Healthy growth and development of all youth.
Troubled teens and challenged caregivers: Characteristics associated with the decision to provide child welfare services to adolescents in Ontario, Canada
This study uses data from the provincially representative Ontario Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (OIS-2013) to identify the characteristics of the alleged maltreatment, functioning concerns, caregiver risk factors, and socioeconomic conditions associated with the decision to provide ongoing child welfare services to adolescents and their families.
Role type, risk perceptions and judgements in child welfare: A mixed methods vignette study
This article reports on a mixed methods study that used an ecological approach to understanding variability in child welfare decision-making.
What does “recovery” from mental illness and addiction mean? Perspectives from child protection social workers and from parents living with mental distress
This paper analyzes the perspectives of eleven social workers doing child protection work and examines the accounts of thirteen parents living with mental illness or addiction who have been involved in child custody investigations in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Substantiated Child Maltreatment: Which factors do workers focus on when making this critical decision?
Utilizing data from the Ontario Incidence study 2013, this paper examines what child, family and environmental characteristics workers paid attention to when making the determination that a child had experienced maltreatment.