Question

Nature of the problem ( incidence, prevalence of this population ) in the child welfare program

Answer 1

The main motive of the child welfare system is the children protection from maltreatment by their parents or other caregivers. Moreover strives in supporting the families by promoting the parents and care givers obligations to raise children to the best of their skills. In United States child welfare program is characterized by complex and numerous and problems, such as more difficulties to serve the client population, rising costs of out-of-home care, and soaring case loads. The growing out-of-homecare population, lack coordination of services for children as well as families, and rising expenditure of special requirements of youth in out-of-home care are among the major concerns. Also shifts in federal policy indicate toward curtailed child welfare spending and dispersed responsibility among counties and states for services towards the child welfare. In the face of these changes, the local and state agencies for child welfare, and the community-based organizations who gives child welfare services, are apt to find meeting the requirements of vulnerable families and children exceedingly tough.