We believe you will find it quite beneficial to your future endeavors. You will learn about policy, practice, and research issues regarding child welfare. This course focuses on children and families whose primary recourse to services has been through publicly funded agencies.

Textbook: The Child Welfare Challenge, Policy, Practice, and Research, second edition. Peter J. Pecora, James K. Whittaker, Anthony N. Maluccio, Richard P. Barth with Robert D. Plotnick. Aldine de Gruyter; 1992. ISBN # 0-202-36125-X (cloth :alk.paper) —- ISBN # 0-202-36126-8.