Towards Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare

Abstract

PART ONE: OVERVIEW * Understanding International Comparisons of Child Protection, Family Service, and Community Caring Systems of Child and Family Welfare GARY CAMERON and NANCY FREYMOND * Learning from Difference: Comparing Child Welfare Systems RACHAEL HETHERINGTON PART TWO: CHILD PROTECTION SYSTEMS * Promoting Change from 'Child Protection' to 'Child and Family Welfare': The Problems of the English System RACHAEL HETHERINGTON and TRACEY NURSE * Forming and Sustaining Partnerships in Child and Family Welfare: The American Experience PATRICIA SCHENE * Problems and Potential of Canadian Child Welfare KAREN SWIFT and MARILYN CALLAHAN PART THREE: FAMILY SERVICE SYSTEMS * The Plight of Paternalism in French Child Welfare and Protective Policies and Practices ALAIN GREVOT * Child and Family Welfare in Sweden GUNVOR ANDERSSON * When One Door Shuts, Another Opens: Turning Disadvantages into Opportunities in Child and Family Welfare in the Netherlands A.W.M. VELDKAMP PART FOUR: COMMUNITY CARING SYSTEMS * From Child Welfare to Child, Family, and Community Welfare: The Agenda of Canada's Aboriginal Peoples DEENA MANDELL, CINDY BLACKSTOCK, JOYCE CLOUSTON CARLSON, and MARSHALL FINE * Maori Perspectives on Collaboration and Colonization in Contemporary Aotearoa / New Zealand Child and Family Welfare Policies and Practices CATHERINE LOVE * First Nations Child and Family Services and Indigenous Knowledge as a Framework for Research, Policy, and Practice MARLYN BENNETT and CINDY BLACKSTOCK PART FIVE: CONCLUSION * Learning from International Comparisons of Child Protection, Family Service, and Community Caring Systems of Child and Family Welfare NANCY FREYMOND and GARY CAMERON Appendix A: Partners in Child Protection and Well-Being Appendix B: Guiding Principles for Building Partnerships Appendix C: Timeline of the Evolution of the French Child Protection System Glossary References List of Contributors