Using Return on Investment to Evaluate Child Welfare Training Programs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10550533 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Loc H Nguyen (0000-0001-8231-721X, Health and Human Services Agency, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 75-79 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-8046 • E-ISSN: 1545-6846 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/sw/sws023 |
| PMID | 23409342 |
| OpenAlex | W2017420985 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 7 |
The impact of child abuse and neglect has affected many aspects of society beyond just those in child welfare. In 2010, there were 408,425 children in foster care in the United States (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2011), and at least that many children who were living in the homes of their parents but under the jurisdiction of a Child Protective Services (CPS) agency. Researchers have also conservatively estimated that there are over 52,000 CPS workers in the nation providing services to these children (Barth, Lloyd, Christ, Chapman, & Dickinson, 2008). Based on estimates by Wang & Holton (2007), the annual economic impact of child abuse and neglect amortized for inflation is over $111 billion, of which less than 25 percent is directly related to child welfare expenditures. The other expenditures relate to the impact on the health, judicial, and education systems and to the loss to society in terms of productivity
Actuarial science · Agency (philosophy · Child abuse · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Foster care · Health care · Human services · Jurisdiction · Neglect · Poison control · Political science · Psychiatry · Social science · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Welfare · Welfare system · Global Health Workforce Issues · Healthcare Policy and Management · Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology
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