IF 0.8 4区 社会学Q4 FAMILY STUDIESChild WelfarePub Date : 2023-10-01
Tammy Richards, Nicole Miller, Elizabeth Eaton, Sharon Newburg-Rinn, Jacquelyn Bertrand
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Preserving Families of Children in Child Welfare with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: Challenges and Opportunities.
The mission of child welfare is to ensure children's safety, permanency, and well-being. It is also charged with preserving and strengthening families and with avoiding the removal of children who can be kept at home safely. This paper addresses some of the challenges in meeting these concurrent goals in work with children prenatally exposed to alcohol and their families. Current child welfare practices are unlikely to identify prenatal alcohol exposure or children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD). Yet if this exposure is identified when families come into contact with child welfare, a jurisdiction's laws and safety and risk assessment processes may lead to unnecessary removal of children from their homes, particularly for Black and American Indian/Alaska Native families. Drawing from research and discourse in the field, strategies are described that could help the child welfare system care for children who may be impacted by FASD while preserving their families. A crucial strategy is partnering with key child and family service providers to identify and respond to FASD.