Volume III highlights principles of practice for professionals in child- and family-serving systems. The first part of the volume focuses on micro- and mezzo-level topics and interventions for children and families in kinship or foster care; LGBTQ+ youth in child welfare; strategies for helping children and families achieve and maintain permanency; specific practices such as risk assessments, in-home services, and motivational interviewing; and considerations for youth who are pregnant or parenting.
Chapters in Part 2 include:
Introduction
Charlene Ingram
Chapter 1: Adoptions: Challenges, Achievements, and Future Directions
Eileen Mayers Pasztor, Wendy Whiting Blome and Maria L. Quintanilla
Chapter 2: Understanding and Utilizing Our Collective Assets: A Framework for Rural Child Welfare Practice
Kathleen Belanger, Ruth McRoy, Emmerentie Oliphant, Joe Haynes and Mary Grace Federline
Chapter 3: Parental Incarceration and Child Welfare: Research, Practice, and Future Directions
AshLee Smith, Luke Muentner, Rebecca Shlafer, Cynthia Burnson and Charlene Taylor
Chapter 4: Impacts of Parental Incarceration and the Role of Early Care and Education Providers
Karen Ruprecht and Angela Tomlin
Chapter 5: Maternal Incarceration and Child Welfare System Involvement
Amy Dworsky, Gina Fedock, Colleen Schlecht and Marion Malcome
Chapter 6: Parent Engagement in Child Welfare: Law, Policy, and Parents’ Perspectives
Kyndra Cleveland and Brittany P. Mihalec-Adkins
Chapter 7: Seeing Color: The Role of Dependency Courts in Dismantling Racism in Child Welfare
Allison Green, Brooke Silverthorn and David Kelly
Chapter 8: An Implementation Science Study of the My Community Cares Initiative: An Innovative Prevention Approach to Meeting the Needs of Communities that are Vulnerable
Corie G. Hebert, Cecile Guin, Michelle Gros and Jenny Forrest
Chapter 9: Child Welfare Kinship Care Policy and Practice: Diversion, a Kinship Family Right to Care, and Kinship Navigator Programs
Gerard Wallace and Eunju Lee
