Child welfare reform by class action lawsuits
dc.contributor.author | Lee, Joyce | |
dc.contributor.author | Gilbert, Terri | |
dc.contributor.author | Lee, Shawna | |
dc.contributor.author | Staller, Karen | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-12-21T03:55:02Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-12-21T03:55:02Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Lee, J.Y., Gilbert, T., Lee, S.J., & Staller, K.M. (2019). Reforming a system that cannot reform itself: Child welfare reform by class action lawsuits. Social Work, 64(4), 283-291. doi: 10.1093/sw/swz029 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/163745 | |
dc.description.abstract | Class action lawsuits have become an increasingly common way to facilitate institutional reform. The purpose of this article is to provide an introduction to social workers of child welfare reform by class action lawsuits and subsequent consent decrees. The authors provide an overview of class action lawsuits, with a focus on their role in implementing systematic change in the United States. They highlight consent decrees as a means of settling class action lawsuits. They illustrate the current state of the child welfare system and how child advocacy groups have used class action lawsuits to initiate reform. Authors provide two case examples of child welfare reform by consent decree and engage in comparative analysis to investigate similarities and differences in the two cases. Finally, they note implications for social work practice and education and provide recommendations to equip and train social workers involved in child welfare services. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | National Association of Social Workers | en_US |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | * |
dc.title | Child welfare reform by class action lawsuits | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Social Work | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | School of Social Work | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/163745/1/2019-Lee-Reformingasystem.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1093/sw/swz029 | |
dc.description.filedescription | Description of 2019-Lee-Reformingasystem.pdf : Main article | |
dc.owningcollname | Social Work, School of (SSW) |
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