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Child Welfare System Analysis:

This assignment provides an opportunity for you to learn more about your local and/or state child welfare system . You will need to obtain some statewide information and some local information from your county or city, depending on how child welfare is organized in your hometown. Just ensure that you have enough information to provide a thorough response to the rubric. Some information can be found on the agency’s annual report which is usually published on the website. Please respond to the rubric exactly as directed, using the center column to record your responses.

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Points

System Details

1. Identify the country, state, and city/county you are reviewing.

2. Identify the state agency that is responsible for child welfare in your state.

3. Identify who runs the child welfare system in your city or county.

4. List the names of the agencies that provide case management, foster care, and adoption services in your city or county.

2 Points

Organizational Analysis

1. Provide the dollar amount of the budget for child welfare in your state.

2. Provide the dollar amount of the budget for child welfare in your county/city.

3. Provide the salary amount for the following:

a. Frontline child welfare case manager or child protective investigator

b. Mid-level administrator

c. Program Director

d. Executive Director/CEO/State Secretary

4 Points

Children and Families Served

1. Identify the age and race of children served in the child welfare system in your state.

2. Identify the age and race of children served in the child welfare system in your state and city/county.

3. Provide the number of children in foster care in your state

4. Provide the number of children in foster care in your city/county.

5. Provide the number of children who were adopted in your state in 2019.

6. Provide number of children who were adopted in your city/county in 2019.

5 Points

Priorities and Initiatives

1. Discuss 1 child welfare initiative or priority that seems to be a priority that your state or city/county child welfare system identifies.

4 Points

Application

1. Based on the research conducted, identify what you believe to be the greatest challenges the state child welfare system is facing.

2. Based on the research conducted, identify what you believe to be the greatest challenges that your city/county child welfare system is facing.

3. Identify a strategy that you would employ to address these challenges.

5 Points