SW 2300 Syllabus

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Family and Children's Services

Types of In home services

•Direct financial aid
–Food stamps
– Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996 changed AFDC to TANF

•Family Based Services
–Federal Adoption Assistance and Child welfare Act of 1980 requires least restrictive environment

Types of In-home services

•Protective Services
–Neglect
– Abuse
– Sanctions

•Prevention

• Permanency Planning

•Day Care

•Head Start

•Homemaker Services and Chore Grants

• Respite

• Family Life Education and Family Therapy

Types of Out of home services

•Foster Care

• Adoption

• Group homes

• Institutional Care

• Courts

Historical Basis

•Historically, child mortality was a significant fact of life for poor children

• Children often abandoned

• London Foundling Hospital 1741

• Childhood as a social construction within a social context

• Childhood as a unique developmental stage is a recent concept

•Late 1800's forbade "mixed almshouses"

• Industrialization

• Public Education

• Child labor laws of the progressive era

Case of Mary Ellen

•Roots of the Child welfare Movement in 1870's

• 1909 Conference on children with Jane Addams - recommended foster care over orphanages

• Protective Service movement 1875 with the case of Mary Ellen
–reported to the New York Society for Prevention on Cruelty to Animals

Protective Services

•Mandated reporting and formalized in Title XX of the Social Security Act in 1974

• Family Preservation and Support Services Act 1993 - Provided Funds for family support services

• Rights of Children United Nations 1954

• Permanency Planning - a permanent plan for the child must be in place after one year to prevent the child from languishing in foster care. In Michigan, a result of Lt. Governor Connie Binsfield (Binsfield Legislation)