Community work approaches to child welfare

著者

• Wharf, Brian

書誌事項

Community work approaches to child welfare

edited by Brian Wharf

Broadview Press, c2002

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Community Work Approaches to Child Welfare presents a number of case studies that illustrate alternative approaches to child welfare that recognizes the strengths and tenacity of families who live in resource poor and essentially unfriendly environments (and that would drive middle class professionals to distraction!). The strengths of these families can be harnessed to improve their situation and that of others. Community work approaches are provided by accessible organizations that involve families in the design and implementation of programs that affect them and that are dedicated to developing the capacity of communities to care for children and families. The case studies range from urban child welfare agencies in Toronto and Winnipeg, to the rural setting of Hazelton, B.C. and to examples of First Nation communities that have taken control of child welfare. The studies are written by Canadian scholars who are widely recognized for their innovative research and writing in community work and child welfare. Community Work Approaches to Child Welfare is also an indictment of the policies and practices that now govern the provision of child welfare services in Canada. The indictment argues that the policies that hold parents, and particularly single parent women, responsible for the care of their children without regard for the circumstances in which these families live is neither realistic nor helpful. It further holds that individualized and office-based practice dominated by a paradigm of risk turns clients into objects thereby robbing them of their dignity and strengths. Community approaches make a viable alternative.

目次

1. Introduction, by Brian Wharf 2. Getting to Now: Children in Distress in Canada's Past, by Veronica Strong-Boag 3. Community Social Work in Two Provinces I. The Neighbourhood House Project in Victoria and the Hazelton Office of the Ministry for Children and Families, Brian Wharf II. Community Child Welfare: Examples from Quebec, by Linda Davies, Karen Fox, Julia Krane, and Eric Shragge 4. Community Organizing in Child Welfare I. Changing Local Environments and Developing Community Capacity, by Brad McKenzie  II. Child Protection Through Strengthening Communities: The Toronto Children's Aid Society, by Bill Lee and Sharon Richards III. Learning from the Past / Visions for the Future: The Black Community and Child Welfare in Nova Scotia, by Candace Bernard and Wanda Thomas Bernard 5. Community Control of Child Welfare: Two Case Studies of Child Welfare in First Nations Communities I. Watching Over Our Families and Children: Lalum'util' Smun'eem Child and Family Services, by Leslie Brown, Lise Haddock, and Margaret Kovach II. Building Community in West Region Child and Family Services, by Brad McKenzie 6. Searching for Common Ground: Family Resource Programs and Child Welfare, by Janice McAulay 7. Building a Case for Community Approaches to Child Welfare, Brian Wharf Contributors Index

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA5726048X
• ISBN:
  • 1551114534
• 出版国コード: cn
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Ontario
• ページ数/冊数: 214 p.
• 大きさ: 22 cm