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by Jill Duerr Berrick, MSW, PhD, 193 pp, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-19-532262-0, New York, New York, Oxford University Press, 2009.

Dee Wilson, MSW, Reviewer

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2009;163(11):1068-1069.

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Jill Berrick, a distinguished scholar at the University of California, coauthored The Tender Years,¹ one of the most important books on child welfare published in the 1990s. Her new book, Take Me Home, is a provocative look at permanent planning for children in foster care and unlicensed kinship care and about the foster care system itself.

Berrick argues there is thin evidence that prevention programs or family preservation services prevent child maltreatment or foster placements. She is concerned that widespread support for poorly researched or ineffective family support programs drains away valuable resources from children in foster care needing permanent families. Berrick asserts that

The fundamental mission of child welfare is downstream (ie, after entry into out of home care), where children must be served, where the child welfare system accepts its greatest responsibility; . . . the dollars spent on ineffective prevention services should be redirected to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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