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Urban Institute (NJ1), 2009
President Clinton signed the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) of 1997, Public Law 105-89 105th Congress, 1st session on November 19, 1997. The ambitious new law aimed to reaffirm the focus on child safety in case decision making and to ensure that children did not languish and grow up in foster care but instead were connected with permanent…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Welfare Services, Foster Care, Adoption
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (DHHS/PHS), Rockville, MD. Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. – 2002
The Division of State and Community Assistance of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), in conjunction with the Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACYF), held four, two-day State team-building workshops. These workshops were designed to help build the State infrastructure necessary to bring about coordinated delivery of…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Child Welfare, Delivery Systems, Family Relationship
Rubenstein, Gwen – 2003
An estimated 11 percent of American children live with at least one parent who abuses or is addicted to alcohol and/or drugs. Parental addiction is a significant factor in child abuse and neglect, with studies suggesting that 40 to 80 percent of families in the child welfare systems are affected by it. With appropriate treatment, many of these…
Descriptors: Addiction, Agency Cooperation, Child Welfare, Drug Rehabilitation