Out of Harm's Way: Creating an Effective Child Welfare System

by Richard Gelles and Richard J. Gelles

Despite many well-intentioned efforts to create, revise, reform, and establish an effective child welfare system in the United States, the system continues to fail to ensure the safety and well-being of maltreated children. Out of Harm's Way explores the following four critical aspects of the system and presents a specific change in each that would lead to lasting improvements.

- Deciding who is the client. Child welfare systems...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190618019
• ISBN13: 9780190618018
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"