Ada Skyles
Biographic Data
| ID | 4227665 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ada Skyles |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ada |
| FAMILY NAME | Skyles |
| SIGNATURE | SKYLES A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Kinship Care for African American Children
To highlight the individual and systemic practices that perpetuate the overuse of and reliance on kinship care and instead emphasize family reunification as the permanency plan for African American children in the child welfare system, the authors first discuss how kinship care is affected by federal child welfare policy and provide a historical perspective on how that policy has evolved. They then discuss the number and proportion of African Ame…
Measuring social capital
Large numbers of social policy initiatives and community organizations are currently engaged in “community building” efforts that seek, in part, to strengthen informal relationships and the organizational infrastructure of communities and to build the capacity of communities to manage and foster community change. One critical requirement for improving such practice is for communities to have greater access and capacity to use information for plan…
Racial disproportionality in the child welfare system
Kinship Care for African American Children
To highlight the individual and systemic practices that perpetuate the overuse of and reliance on kinship care and instead emphasize family reunification as the permanency plan for African American children in the child welfare system, the authors first discuss how kinship care is affected by federal child welfare policy and provide a historical perspective on how that policy has evolved. They then discuss the number and proportion of African Ame…
Racial disproportionality in the child welfare system
Measuring social capital
Large numbers of social policy initiatives and community organizations are currently engaged in “community building” efforts that seek, in part, to strengthen informal relationships and the organizational infrastructure of communities and to build the capacity of communities to manage and foster community change. One critical requirement for improving such practice is for communities to have greater access and capacity to use information for plan…
Racial disproportionality in the child welfare system
Measuring social capital
Large numbers of social policy initiatives and community organizations are currently engaged in “community building” efforts that seek, in part, to strengthen informal relationships and the organizational infrastructure of communities and to build the capacity of communities to manage and foster community change. One critical requirement for improving such practice is for communities to have greater access and capacity to use information for plan…
Kinship Care for African American Children
To highlight the individual and systemic practices that perpetuate the overuse of and reliance on kinship care and instead emphasize family reunification as the permanency plan for African American children in the child welfare system, the authors first discuss how kinship care is affected by federal child welfare policy and provide a historical perspective on how that policy has evolved. They then discuss the number and proportion of African Ame…
Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Welfare (2 works) · Welfare system (2 works) · African american (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Business (1 work)