There is no easy rule of thumb for a child care training welfare worker to use in deciding between individual foster family homes and family care or some form of specialized group care. Nor are there clear-cut "rules" for helping the child care training and adults involved to make full use of the substitute care opportunity. Years of training and experience plus special sensitivity are required. People of this kind with skills and knowledge needed to provide or supervise such services are in short supply. Good foster care facilities of all kinds are also lacking and there is a particular need for facilities for the growing numbers of already seriously damaged child care trainingren for whom neither family nor community has yet been able to provide adequate service.
This definition is problem-focused, emphasizing prevention and remedy. It recognizes the value of strengthening a child care training's own home where possible. Where this is not possible, a variety of substitute living situations is provided.
child care training welfare services are directed to the social problem of deprivation of parental care. As the accompanying chart illustrates, they are designed to help with society's child care training-rearing task in three important ways: (1) to substitute for parental care either partially or wholly according to a child care training's individual needs; (2) to supplement the care that a child care training receives, or to compensate for certain inadequacies or limitations in parental care; and (3) to support or reinforce the ability of parents to meet their child care trainingren's needs.
Service designed to substitute for natural parental care, either partially or completely, is still the predominant child care training welfare service. Of the total number of child care trainingren receiving child care training welfare services in the United States, more than half are receiving service away from their own homes and their own families.
Substitute care programs include foster family care, institutional care, and adoption.
There is no easy rule of thumb for a child care training welfare worker to use in deciding between individual foster family homes and family care or some form of specialized group care. Nor are there clear-cut "rules" for helping the child care training and adults involved to make full use of the substitute care opportunity. Years of training and experience plus special sensitivity are required. People of this kind with skills and knowledge needed to provide or supervise such services are in short supply. Good foster care facilities of all kinds are also lacking and there is a particular need for facilities for the growing numbers of already seriously damaged child care trainingren for whom neither family nor community has yet been able to provide adequate service.