Welfare Reform and Family and Child Well-Being Implications and Opportunities for Child Welfare

Examines how welfare reform (WR) will affect families & children, & in particular the implications for child welfare (CW) services. Helps you to understand the connection between public welfare & CW, & the implications of WR for CW services. Chapters: understanding the families on welfare who receive CW services; combined TANF (Temp. Assist. for Needy Families) & CW services & the El Paso County, CO experience; state level CW & TANF policy consid.; California's children: demographics assoc. with child maltreatment, poverty, public assist. & CW services; a history of public assist. & CW progr.; state & Fed. CW statutes; & WR & children: implications.Powell, M. Anne is the author of 'Welfare Reform and Family and Child Well-Being Implications and Opportunities for Child Welfare' with ISBN 9780756710002 and ISBN 0756710006.