Understanding Why Some Families Keep Turning Up in the Child-Welfare System

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Families With Repeat Involvement With Child Welfare Systems: The Current Knowledge Base and Needed Next Steps, reviews what research has found about families visited more than once by child-protective services. The report describes patterns of repeat maltreatment and other problems — including substance abuse, domestic violence, and unemployment — and how chronic mistreatment affects children physically, psychologically, and behaviorally. The publication also discusses promising approaches to remedying the problem of repeat involvement with child-welfare systems, illustrated with brief case studies from around the United States.

Publisher: Center for Community Partnerships in Child Welfare of the Center for the Study of Social Policy, 700 Broadway, Suite 301, New York, N.Y. 10003; (212) 979-2369; fax (212) 995-8756; http://www.cssp.org/center; 22 pages; available free for download on the organization’s Web site.