NCJ Number
142706
Date Published
1993
Length
64 pages
Annotation
This guide presents strategies to implement eight recommendations for making human services programs and policies work for children and their families.
Abstract
The Nation's social welfare system is unprepared to meet the needs of children with multiple and severe problem. To implement effective human service programs and policies, the Commission recommends: coordinate child and family policies across the executive branch, create a joint congressional committee on children and families, decategorize selected Federal programs, establish uniform eligibility criteria and consolidate applications, provide incentives for demonstration projects, develop new accountability measures, invest more in prevention, and increase salaries and training opportunities in the early childhood and child welfare fields. A strategy discussion accompanies each recommendation. 1 appendix and 35 notes