The issue of CW360º explores the lingering impacts of the pandemic on families and child welfare practitioners. The issue also includes topics such as child maltreatment and mandated reporting trends, innovative strategies implemented in response to the challenges of the pandemic, workforce stability and the effects of hybrid work.
CASCW’s first issue of CW360° seeks to understand the experiences and outcomes of children of incarcerated parents and their families as they receive child welfare services.
Readers are introduced to the complexities often present when working with adolescents in foster care. Solutions and innovations for improving practice are provided.
Stability is often elusive for children and youth in out-of-home care. This issue presents a variety of research findings and perspectives in order to address this need.
Articles include research and federal policy related to placement stability, ways in which workers, advocates, and agencies can help youth achieve stability, and perspectives of individuals directly and indirectly involved in helping youth attain stability.
CASCW’s first collaborative issue highlights the challenge of providing services appropriately tailored to the developmental ages of the children served by child welfare.
Child welfare professionals face unique challenges such as secondary trauma as they undertake the day-to-day work of providing safety and stability to families.
This issue addresses the question of how to incorporate trauma-informed organizational and practice strategies into child welfare practice.
This issue is dedicated to exploring the issues of children with disabilities in the child welfare system, a population that is overrepresented in child welfare.
Continuing the exploration of the intersection of child welfare and disability, this issue focuses on the experiences of parents with disabilities and mental illness (MI) in the child welfare system.
This issue of CW360° is dedicated to exploring holistic views of well-being with a strong emphasis on addressing unresolved trauma as a key to better outcomes for children, youth, and families. Throughout this publication you will find research, policy, and practice strategies that reflect the emerging aspects of this work today.