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Half-Title Page -- Home-Based Services for Troubled Children -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Forward -- Acknowledgments -- Home-Based Services for Troubled Children -- l. Family Preservation Services in Context: Origins, Practices, and Current Issues Kathleen Wells -- 2. Homebuilders: Helping Families Help Themselves Jill Kinney and Kelly Dittmar -- 3. Network Interventions with High-Risk Youth and Families Throughout the Continuum of Care Elizabeth M. Tracy, ]ames K. Whittaker, Francis Boylan, Paul Neitman, and Edward Overstreet

Addresses the rights of children in areas of juvenile justice, child welfare, & mental health, since these areas constitute a large proportion of the juvenile court's business. In mental health cases, children have few, if any, rights. Yet, they are often subjected to abuse & constraints that would constitute major civil rights violations if they were adults. In child welfare, children have some basic rights, but they are often dependent on the virtually unbridled discretion of child welfare & other administrative officials. More often than not, the juvenile court plays a perfunctory role in the process & merely rubber-stamps recommendations made by child welfare personnel. Discussion focuses on implications of these issues & how they should be considered in the future. 34 References. Adapted from the source document.

The two major institutions set up to assist at-risk youths -- the juvenile court & the child welfare system -- have failed at their common historical mission to treat, supervise, rehabilitate, protect, & care for youths. Institutional survival has almost always taken precedence over this core mission. The result has been the unintended but not unexpected victimization of their vulnerable, often already victimized, young clientele. There are profound political, social, & institutional forces in tense balance surrounding the two systems: some keep the two institutions from crumbling, & others keep them from making basic changes that would presage meaningful institutional reform &, perhaps, revival. Despite these obstacles to change, there are still possibilities for embarking on a politically & socially sound process of change, one that might enable the juvenile court & the child welfare system to better fulfill their mission. 38 References. Adapted from the source document.