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Child Welfare Information Gateway | Placement of Children With Relatives

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In order for States to receive Federal payments for foster care and adoption assistance, Federal law under title IV-E of the Social Security Act requires that they “consider giving preference to an adult relative over a nonrelated caregiver when determining placement for a child, provided that the relative caregiver meets all relevant State child protection standards.” Title IV-E further requires States to exercise due diligence to identify and provide notice to all grandparents and other adult relatives of the child (including any other adult relatives suggested by the parents) regarding (1) the fact that the child has been or is being removed from the custody of his or her parents, (2) the options the relative has to participate in the care and placement of the child, and (3) the requirements to become a foster parent to the child. Each State defines “relative” differently, including relatives by blood, marriage, or adoption ranging...

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Institutional Racism & The Social Work Profession: A Call To Action

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Social work as a profession aims to address the impact of social problems on the lives of individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. To achieve this, the members of the profession, the organizations through which they work, and the schools of social work must have the knowledge base, theories, and values to understand relevant social issues, especially for the purpose of creating positive change.

Purpose

The purpose of this document is to address one key and significant social issue, institutional (also known as structural) racism. Throughout this document these terms will be used interchangeably. This document will provide definitions of institutional/structural racism, clarify how it is relevant to the social work profession, and detail how it is manifested in the social systems within which social workers engage. Most importantly, this document will offer a vision for how the social work profession can address structural racism, in terms of both limiting its negative

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Social Experiments.

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Abstract

Recent concern about social experimentation, program evaluation, impact analysis and related activities can be viewed as a broad social movement. An older tradition of evaluation and social experimentation in medicine that arose from a research and development perspective contrasts with the new, policy-oriented movement toward evaluation research. The independent variables or interventions in policy-oriented studies range from medical treatments to bureaucratic arrangements for service delivery. The boundaries between social experimentation and other forms of applied social research are indefinite. The characteristics, advantages and limitations, and examples of various forms of human experiments are discussed, including small and large scale controlled field trials for health care facilities and medical treatments and policies, and quasi-experiments which attempt to approximate randomized controlled experiments without the use of randomization to establish experimental and control groups.

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