From Pariahs to Partners
How parents and their allies changed New York City's child welfare system
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 6 June 2013
- ISBN 9780195099881
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 157x236x22 mm
- Weight 544 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
In the early 1990s 50,000 children were in New York City's foster care system. By 2011 there were fewer than 15,000. In his book, David Tobis shows how such radical change was driven largely by a movement of mothers whose children had been placed into foster care, who fought to become advocates and stakeholders in a system that had previously viewed them as part of the problem. This book serves as an example of how advocates can change a system, as told from the perspective of key figures, change agents, and the parent advocates themselves.
MoreLong description:
At the end of the 20th century, New York City had one of the worst child welfare systems in the United States. Often families' difficulties festered without help from the city until the situation exploded in the mid-90s. The city's response was to place children in foster care, and by the early 1990s there were 50,000 children in care, more than at any other time in the city's history.
Beginning in the mid-1990s, for the first time in the history of the United States, a movement developed of parents who have been embroiled in the child welfare system. Their efforts, working with their allies, brought about unprecedented improvements that have resulted in more benefits to children and families, systemic changes that appear to be lasting. By 2011, fewer than 15,000 children were in New York City's foster care system.
The parents whose stories are traced in this book were victims of domestic violence, homelessness and poverty. Some became dependent on drugs. They all had the crushing, enraging and at times transforming experience of having their children taken from them and put into foster care by child protective services. Many of these parents entered drug treatment programs, got intensive counseling, left abusive relationships, got jobs, filed lawsuits and were reunited with their children. Some took the next step and were trained as parent organizers. They learned how to fight effectively against bad child welfare policies that leave families victimized by a system that is supposed to help them.
This book focuses on the lives of six mothers who have come back "from the other side, " and their allies-child welfare commissioners, social workers, lawyers and foundation officers who used their resources to help parents and advocates, and recounts how their courage and resilience was harnessed to bring about the most significant changes in the history of New York's child welfare system.
The system of parent advocacy described by David Tobis in this book will give immense encouragement and support to both child welfare professionals and non-professionals around the world who believe that too many children and young people are unnecessarily removed into State Care and too often are unnecessarily detained in State Care. The system brings realisable benefits to the children and young people, their parents, child welfare professionals who work tirelessly to support families, often with little success, and to the taxpayers and politicians who fund the child welfare systems.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: The New York
Chapter 2: Parents
Chapter 3: Tilling the Soil: The Groundwork for Parent Activism
Chapter 4: Parents Find Their Voice
Chapter 5: Other New York City Parent Organizations
Chapter 6: Parent Participation Across the Country
Chapter 7: What Improved, What Hasn't and What's Beginning to Slip
Chapter 8: Conclusions
Epilogue
Annex I: Vision and Strategy for the Future
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