Babies Can't Wait: Promoting the Healthy Development of Young Children in the Child Welfare System: Improving Outcomes for Babies in the Child Welfare System - Softcover

Dicker, Sheryl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1557669619 ISBN 13: 9781557669612

Publisher: Brookes Publishing Co., 2008

Synopsis

Encouraging a multidisciplinary perspective, this guide explores the needs of children in the child welfare system and offers ways to get them back on track.Children from birth to age 3 are the largest group of children to enter, re-enter, and remain the child welfare system. Of these children, more than half demonstrate developmental delays. These children's needs are not often addressed by professionals and policy makers involved in decision-making regarding the child welfare system. This book shows how important it is to take a multi-disciplinary approach to address this situation. Through detailed case studies, the author demonstrates best practices and the development of new interdisciplinary models. The key thread in the book is research and practice that align with healthy child development. Topics include the history of child welfare advocacy, new research and new laws, legal advocacy, health care advocacy, early intervention advocacy, early childhood education advocacy, and future directions.

About this title

About the Author

Sheryl Dicker is Executive Director, Permanent Judicial Commission on Justice for Children, New York.

From the Back Cover

Babies and young children in the child welfare system have a high prevalence for physical, cognitive, and social-emotional delays -- and often don't have access to the services and supports that could make all the difference. Demystifying the world of child welfare shows early childhood practitioners how to successfully navigate this complex system and collaborate with a wide range of other professionals to meet young children's needs. Discover what new brain research says about the importance of effective early intervention and consistent caregiving in the earliest years of life, see how the current system works by tracing several children's journeys through child welfare and juvenile court, help fulfill the promise of new laws related to child welfare, health care, and early intervention and education, understand the juvenile court's powerful potential to influence young children's healthy development, help improve access to coordinated, consistent health care for young children in the child welfare system, work to make early intervention screening universal and services readily available to young children and families, make the most of early childhood education as a portal to school readiness, social-emotional development, and overall well-being.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brookes Publishing Co.
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1557669619
• ISBN 13: 9781557669612
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216