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BL
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1034425
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b788795
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| Main Entry
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Berrick, Jill Duerr.
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| Title & Author
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Take me home : : protecting America's vulnerable children and families /\ Jill Duerr Berrick.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2009.
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ix, 194 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0195322622
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: 9780195322620
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-189) and index.
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| Contents
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Securing a safe home for children: a new national priority -- Prevention: unrealized potential, unrecognized faults -- Reunification: one pathway home -- After adoption: keeping a connection to home -- Kinship guardianship: finding a home between the family and the state -- Quality foster care: my home for now -- Take me home -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index.
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| Abstract
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"There is a profound crisis in the United States' foster care system, Jill Duerr Berrick writes in this book. No state has passed the federally mandated Child and Family Service Review; two-thirds of the state systems have faced class-action lawsuits demanding change; and most tellingly, well over half of all children who enter foster care never go home. The field of child welfare has lost its way and is neglecting its fundamental responsibility to the most vulnerable children and families in America." "But despite the clear crisis in child welfare, most calls for reform have focused on unproven prevention methods, not on improving the situation for those already caught in the system. Berrick argues that real child welfare reform will only occur when the centerpiece of child welfare - reunification, permanency, and foster care - is reaffirmed."
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"Take Me Home offers prescriptions for policy change and strategies for parents, social workers, and judges struggling with permanency decisions. Readers will come away reinvigorated in their thinking about how to get children to the homes they need."--Jacket.
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Child welfare-- United States.
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Foster children-- United States.
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Foster home care-- United States.
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Child welfare-- United States.
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Child welfare.
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Foster children-- United States.
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Foster children.
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Foster home care-- United States.
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Foster home care.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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362.73/30973
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| LC Classification
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HV881.B47 2009
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D771.285clc
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