Title: Follow the Money: Federal, State, and Local Funding Strategies for Child Welfare Services and the Impact of Local Levies on Adoptions in Ohio
Abstract: Since 1961, the federal government has been an actor in the locally delivered child welfare system, addressing the needs of abused and neglected children by creating both mandated policies and fiscal support for child welfare systems. At the federal level, policies have been enacted, reformed, and amended repeatedly to rectify new problems, sometimes created by their prior reform. Before the Obama Administration even took office, advocacy organizations were developing policy agendas to urge the new administration to continue to reform the child welfare system, and scholars were recommending new models for legal accountability in the welfare state. Concurrently, states and local governments are facing severe budget shortages causing freezes and cuts in
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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