Take me home
Subtitle: protecting America's vulnerable children and families
By: Jill Duerr Berrick.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780195322620
Subjects: Foster home care -- United States; Foster children -- United States; Child welfare -- United States
Description: There is a profound crisis in the United States' foster care system, Jill Duerr Berrick writes. 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; well over half of all children who enter foster care never go home.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Securing a safe home for children: a new national priority; title: Prevention: unrealized potential, unrecognized faults; title: Reunification: one pathway home; title: After adoption: keeping a connection to home; title: Kinship guardianship: finding a home between family and the state; title: Quality foster care: my home for now; title: Take me home; title: Appendix; title: Notes; title: Index.