Summary article
In the response to the overuse of the foster care system and the lack of training of child-welfare workers the State Legislatures enacted the Child Welfare Reform Act in 1979. The program will provide preventive and rehabilitative services that focus on strengthening family relationships and to place the children back with their families as quickly as possible. If all of these services fail and the families dynamic is detrimental to the child the Act provide adoptive placement as well, so foster care will not be a common option for a temporary home of children. In response to the lack of training of staff who make decisions that can disruptive the child and families life the Child Welfare Reform Act also require workers to have adequate training of the complexing of problem related to children remove from the families, cultural backgrounds, and the legal procedures of foster care. This act is for the sole purpose of enabling …show more content…
Now, the federal funded exclusively flowed for child protective services which used the public dollars to reimburse the cost of foster care. However, there wasn’t an incentive of funding for child welfare agencies to provide preventive services as it focused all of its funding on the foster care system. The introduction of the Child Welfare Reform Act took a more role in shaping the nature of child protective services to prevent the overuse of foster care which resulted in children being found without a plan for the child being place back with their families or placed in another permanent home. Through this act the State will reimbursed its public dollars to the agencies for the required preventive services as well as placed fiscal sanctions on agencies that continue to use foster care inappropriately to reduce the number of children lost in the foster care