NCJ Number
117905
Date Published
1986
Length
96 pages
Annotation
This survey focuses on data about children receiving Preplacement Preventive Services in California, including the reason for the case opening, types of services provided, family stress factors, and client and alleged perpetrator characteristics.
Abstract
Preplacement Preventive Services are composed of the Emergency Response and Family Maintenance Programs. Emergency Response is a response system which provides immediate in-person response, 24 hours a day, seven days a week to reports of abuse, neglect, or exploitation. Family Maintenance is designed to provide time-limited protective services to prevent or remedy neglect, abuse, or exploitation for the purposes of preventing unnecessary separation of children from their families. Selected data is presented about children whose Emergency Response or Family Maintenance services were discontinued in April 1985. The purpose of using closed cases was to establish a data base that would encompass the entire period of time that the case was active. 53 tables, appendix.