The Evolution of Federal Child Welfare Policy through the Family First Prevention Services Act of 2018: Opportunities, Barriers, and Unintended Consequences
The Evolution of Federal Child Welfare Policy through the Family First Prevention Services Act of 2018: Opportunities, Barriers, and Unintended Consequences
复制标题
2018 年《家庭优先预防服务法》中联邦儿童福利政策的演变：机会、障碍和意外后果
DOI：
--
复制
发表时间：
2020
期刊：
影响因子：
--
通讯作者：
David Kelly
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
M. Testa;David Kelly
2018年的《家庭优先预防服务法》为儿童福利机构提供了一个新的机会，为证据支持的干预措施提供资金，以防止儿童被转移到公共寄养家庭，并确保被照顾的青少年在限制最少（最像家庭）的环境中获得适当的治疗。新的法律被普遍认为是对先前资金限制的急需改进，但越来越多的儿童福利领导人，研究人员，专业会员组织和倡导团体担心，它对因虐待而面临被驱逐风险的儿童的家庭的关注过于有限，过度依赖严格的证据标准可能会导致种族差异。本文认为，儿童福利机构如何才能最好地利用家庭第一所带来的机会，同时解决证据支持的预防计划的缺乏所带来的潜在障碍，并避免意外的后果，仅限于报销选择性的预防服务，满足严格的证据标准的有效性。
The Family First Prevention Services Act of 2018 affords child welfare agencies a new opportunity to fund evidence-supported interventions to prevent children’s removal into public foster care and ensure that youth in care receive appropriate treatment in the least restrictive (most family-like) setting. The new law has been generally heralded as a much-needed improvement over prior funding constraints, but there are concerns among a growing number of child welfare leaders, researchers, professional membership organizations, and advocacy groups that its focus on the families of children who are at immanent risk of removal because of maltreatment is too limiting and that overreliance on strict evidence standards may contribute to racial disparity. This article considers how child welfare agencies can best leverage the opportunities presented by Family First while addressing potential barriers posed by the paucity of evidence-supported prevention programs and avoiding the unintended consequences of limiting reimbursement to only selective prevention services that meet rigorous evidence standards of effectiveness.