The recent focus on diversity in themanagement literature takes on special urgency in the context of human services organizations. Human services organizations have traditionally served a wide array of communities with a high representation of diverse, disadvantaged, and oppressed groups. This diversity has not typically been mirrored in the workforce of those organizations. A recent study of a...

Abstract Background Children involved in the child welfare system (CWS) have a greater need for mental health treatment relative to children in the general population. However, the research on mental health treatment for children in the CWS is sparse with only one known previous review of mental health services with children in the CWS. Objective This review reports on an evaluation of the lite...

a University of Illinois at Chicago, Jane Addams College of Social Work, 1040 W. Harrison (MC 309), Chicago, IL 60607, Unites States b University of Texas at Austin, School of Social Work, 1 University Station D3500, Austin, TX 78712, United States c Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, 701 W. 51st Street, Austin, TX 78751, United States d Child Protection Research Center, Americ...

Although some research suggests that the relationship between Child Protective Services workers and their clients may influence client outcomes, little is known about the function of the relationship between welfare or Temporary Assistance for Needy Families caseworkers and their clients. Building on previous research, the authors use 1999 survey data from the Welfare, Children, and Families Pr...

he history of child mental health services in the United States in the past 100 years is T notable for the development of 2 different traditions, one arising from professionals, the other from advocates. We review these 2 traditions, often divergent, and argue that closer collaboration would benefit the children and families served by these traditions. As troubled children were increasingly see...

Summary: Over the past two decades, research on social work practice has experienced substantial growth in the United States, indicated by both the establishment of the Society for Social Work Research in 1994 and increased funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Recently, this growth has carried an increasing emphasis on research to establish the evidence base for social work pra...

Racial and ethnic disparities in delinquency among child welfare-involved youth are well documented. However, less is known about the mechanisms through which these disparities occur. This study explores the extent to which sets of variables predict the occurrence of juvenile delinquency and whether race/ethnicity moderates the strength of the relationships between (1) social, emotional, and be...