Out of Harm's Way: Creating an Effective Child Welfare System

Despite many well-intentioned efforts to create, revise, reform, and establish an effective child welfare system in the United States, the system continues to fail to ensure the safety and well-being of maltreated children. Out of Harm's Way explores the following four critical aspects of the system and presents a specific change in each that would lead to lasting improvements.

- Deciding who is the client. Child welfare systems attempt to balance the needs of the child and those of the pare...