Toward a Child-Centered, Neighborhood-Based Child Protection System

Overview The Conceptual Foundation: Why Child Protection Should be Neighborhood-Based and Child-Centered by Gary B. Melton and Ross A. Thompson Some Initial Ideas About Implementation of a Child-Centered, Neighborhood-Based Child Protection System: Impressions from Focus Groups in Nebraska by Alan J. Tomkins and Kathryn A. Olson The Social Context: What Comes Naturally in Child Protection by Susan P. Limber and Patricia Y. Hashima The Nature and Efficacy of Child-Centered, Neighborhood-Based Child Protection Programs: The Record Thus Far by Sarah L. Cook, Dickon Reppucci, and Mark A. Small Foundations for a Child-Centered, Neighborhood-Based Child Protection System Neighborhood-Based Services: Lessons from the Settlement House Movement and the War on Poverty by Murray Levine and Adeline Levine The Cross-Cultural Context: Lessons from Community Development Projects by Clifford R. O'Donnell, Kathleen Wilson, and Roland G. Tharp The Political Context: Lessons from Efforts to Reform Child and Family Services by Josephine Gittler The Legal Context of Child Protection: A Proposal for a Child-Centered Policy by Mark A. Small, Catherine A. Crosby-Currie, and N. Dickon Reppucci Toward a Child-Oriented Child Protection System by Ross A. Thompson and Mary Fran Flood Some Current Applications Exemplary Neighborhood-Based Programs for Child Protection by Kathleen Wilson and Gary B. Melton Healthy Start: A Statewide System of Family Support for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect--And More by Loretta Fuddy and Ross A. Thompson The Self-Help Movement and Neighborhood Support for Troubled Families by Virginia Murphy-Berman and Gary B. Melton Research Issues: New Methods for New Problems: Client Life-Histories as a Construct for Evaluation of Child and Youth Services by Edward P. Mulvey and William Gardner Next Steps Creating Caring Communities: The Need for Structural Change by Mark A. Small, Gary B. Melton, Kathryn A. Olson, and Alan J. Tomkins Appendix A: Member Affiliate Centers of the Consortium on Children, Families, and the Law Appendix B: Reports of the U.S. Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect Appendix C: The U.S. Advisory Board's Proposed National Child Protection Policy Appendix D: The Nebraska Child Protection Commission's Proposed Safe Children Policy Act Appendix E: The Nebraska Family Policy Act