An Evaluation of Family to Family as a Model of Outcome–based Child Welfare Services for Sonoma County
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In 1997, the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA), passed by the federal government, included a requirement that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services develop outcome measures for child welfare agencies. There had been ongoing concerns about the state of the foster care system, which seemed to continue to grow each decade with disproportionate levels of racial and ethnic minorities in care and reports of children aging out of foster homes and into homelessness. ASFA represented a clear legislative call for more accountability in how the state child welfare systems were operated.
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