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Hagedorn, John M. Forsaking Our Children: Bureaucracy and Reform in the Child Welfare System
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. Lake View Pr 1995 0941702413 / 9780941702416 Hard Cover Very Good + Fine Ex-Library
A photo of this book is available. Very-nice, clean copy. Based upon the Date Due card in book front, this book was never checked out. The dustcover has a mylar cover over the original and it is like-new. Fewer than usual library markings. Inner pages are free from writing, marks and tears. Tight spine, bright pages. 246 pages. Library Journal Social scientist Hagedorn's fieldwork study covers a two-and-one-half-year stint as an "involved observer" in the Youth Initiative pilot program (which he coordinated) of the Milwaukee County Department of Social Services. Despite the program's failure to change fundamentally the major activities of social workers from a punitive, family-disruptive approach, Hagedorn remains a strong proponent of Lisbeth Schoor's (Within Our Reach, LJ 6/15/88) argument that support can be garnered for programs that provide, instead, community-based family-strengthening support services. Even with the entrenchment of social work bureaucracies and general public attitudes, the author argues that the Initiative could still provide a blueprint for change, but it would have to be demonstrably persuasive to wean the American people from their advocacy of the "politics of punishment" when it comes to child welfare programs. Recommended for the general public as well as for professionals and academics.-Suzanne W. Wood, SUNY Coll. of Technology, Alfred BookList Hagedorn shifts his focus from street gangs in "People and Folks" (1989) to bureaucracies designed to aid the nation's children. In 1988, Hagedorn was hired to reorganize the children's services sector of the Milwaukee County Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). He immediately found himself up against an immovable bureaucracy, one that was not helping the children under its care. Here Hagedorn combines a narrative of his time at DHHS with scholarly work on the nature of welfare bureaucracies to effectively argue that the nation's "child welfare system doesn't work for poor families." The welfare bureaucracy and its "heavily unionized" caseworkers continue to enrich themselves on ever-growing budgets, while those who they should help are suffering. That the system has recently taken up the banner of child abuse is, in Hagedorn's opinion, an attempt to garner more funding. A penetrating critique of a system gone terribly awry.
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