Now available online: Spring 2013 CW360°, “The Intersection of Child Welfare and Disability: Focus on Children”

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The Spring 2013 issue of CW360°, “The Intersection of Child Welfare and Disability: Focus on Children,” from the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare (CASCW) is now available online. This CW360° explores issues impacting children with disabilities in child welfare and provides examples of policy solutions and practice strategies for working with this population.
It is essential for child welfare workers and advocates to understand and be aware of the prevalence of disability in child welfare. As Traci LaLiberte and Tracy Crudo state in their letter from the editors,

“There is not a child welfare worker, supervisor, or administrator practicing in the field today that has not or will not come into contact with children with disabilities. Indeed, it is likely that many of the children on any given child welfare worker’s caseload have some form of disability.”

CASCW’s annual CW360° magazine provides comprehensive information on the latest research, policies, and practices in a key area affecting child well-being to communities, child welfare professionals, and other human service professionals. CASCW will also produce a special issue this summer focusing on parents with disabilities in the child welfare system.
To view the current and past issues of CW360°, visit the CW360° webpage on the CASCW website.