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Annotation: This report highlights the significantly higher rates of child welfare involvement among inadequately-housed families and children, often resulting in foster care placement. It describes how homelessness and housing instability impact children; outlines national efforts to address the housing crisis; and describes ways in which child protection agencies can work with system partners to keep families together whenever possible.

Contact: Casey Family Programs, 2001 Eighth Avenue, Suite 2700, Seattle, WA 98121, Telephone: (206) 282-7300 Fax: (202) 282-3555 E-mail: http://www.casey.org/ContactUs/EmailUs/?email=pbagnpghf@pnfrl.bet&officename=Casey%20Family%20%20Programs Web Site: http://www.casey.org

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Keywords: Barriers, Child health, Child protection agencies, Child welfare, Families, Foster care, Homelessness, Housing, Initiatives, Socioeconomic factors

Annotation: This bulletin explores the strengths and weaknesses of six possible explanations for the decline in child sexual abuse cases substantiated by child protective services by using data from several state and national sources. These sources include the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS), state child protective service data, the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), and the Minnesota Student Survey. Key findings are presented, evidence and explanations are offered for the decline, evidence is presented to support each of the six explanations, and a conclusion is offered. Statistical information is presented in figures throughout the bulletin. The bulletin concludes with a list of references.

Contact: National Criminal Justice Reference Service, P.O. Box 6000, Rockville, MD 20849-6000, Telephone: (800) 851-3420 Secondary Telephone: (301)240-7760 Fax: 301-240-5830 Web Site: https://www.ncjrs.gov Available at no charge; also available from the website. Document Number: NCJ 199298.

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Keywords: Child abuse, Child health, Child protection agencies, Data, Sexual abuse, Surveys, Trends, Victims

Annotation: This report identifies problems confronting child protection service units that affect the system's capacity to protect children from abuse and neglect, state and local responses to these problems, and opportunities for the federal government to assist in improving the system's capacity to respond to the needs of abused and neglected children. Accompanying appendices provide the scope and methodology of the background research including a literature review, interviews of experts, visit to states reforming their child protecting service systems, and the convening of a panel of experts.

Contact: U.S. Government Accountability Office, 441 G Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20548, Telephone: (202) 512-3000 E-mail: contact@gao.gov Web Site: http://www.gao.gov Available from the website. Document Number: GAO/HEHS-97-115.

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Keywords: Child abuse, Child neglect, Child protection agencies, Child protective services, Program evaluation, Program improvement

Annotation: This book includes two reports, Maternal Care and Mental Health: A Report Prepared on Behalf of the World Health Organization as a Contribution to the United Nations Programme for the Welfare of Homeless Children by John Bowlby and Deprivation of Maternal Care: A Reassessment of its Effects by the other authors. Bowlby's report discusses the needs of children orphaned or separated from their families in their own countries. It discusses adverse effects of maternal deprivation, such as mental disorders, and prevention of maternal deprivation through supporting families or creating substitute families. Deprivation of Maternal Care assesses Bowlby's work and provides signed chapters on "masked deprivation" in infants and young children, paternal and maternal roles and delinquency, a social scientists' approach to maternal deprivation, a review of research on the concept of maternal deprivation, and a review on findings and controversy on the effects of maternal deprivation. Bowlby's work provides tables and a bibliography and the other work also lists references.

Keywords: Abandoned children, Child behavior, Child development, Child mental health, Child protection agencies, Family preservation, Homeless persons, Infant development, Juvenile delinquency, Orphans

Annotation: A publication of the U.S. Children's Bureau.

Contact: Maternal and Child Health Library at Georgetown University, E-mail: mchgroup@georgetown.edu Web Site: https://www.mchlibrary.org Available from the website.

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Keywords: Child health, Child protection agencies, Child welfare, Children with special health care needs, Children', Federal aid, Juvenile courts, Juvenile delinquents, MCH services, State aid, State grants, Welfare services, s Bureau

Annotation: A publication of the U.S. Department of Labor, Children's Bureau.

Contact: Maternal and Child Health Library at Georgetown University, E-mail: mchgroup@georgetown.edu Web Site: https://www.mchlibrary.org Available from the website.

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Keywords: Child health services, Child protection agencies, Child welfare agencies, Field studies, Foster children, Health supervision, Reports