The risk climate and the delivery of child welfare services |
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Authors: | Sandra Cornelius Timothy Baker |
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Institution: | Children and Youth Services Delaware County, PA, USA |
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Abstract: | The community is conceptualized as a “risk climate” in which the traditional child welfare services such as own-home services, foster placement, adoption and institutionalization are delivered. The community generates incidence of child welfare cases through the pressure of conditions, and affects prevalence by the extent of its response. Any method of allocating scarce resources should take variations in the risk climate into account in order to put resources where the problem is. This report presents an effort to achieve such a procedure through (1) a literature review to isolate variables related to child welfare service delivery; (2) a report of zero order relationships between these variables and outcome measures; and (3) the use of a multiple regression analysis to develop predictive procedures. The process developed is put forward as an equitable way of distributing scarce resources. |
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Keywords: | Requests for reprints may be addressed to Sandra Cornelius Children and Youth Services Delaware County Front and Orange Streets Media PA 19063 USA |
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