Re: Police invovlement in CPS Investigations

["Charlie Ferguson" <fergusch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mary Armstrong, from the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health
Institute at the University of South Florida, presented "The
Privatization of Child Welfare in Florida: A Mixed-Method Evaluation of
Initial Sites" at the SSWR conference in January. She provided the
address of two websites:

http://childwelfare.fmhi.usf.edu/
http://www.state.fl.us/cf_web/myflorida2/healthhuman/publications/pubs.html

It may not be exactly what you're looking for, but in her presentation
she did touch on the issue of law enforcement involvement in CPS
investigations. She might have more information.

I hope this is helpful.

Charlie




At 01:26 PM 2/6/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> Colleagues,
>
> Does anyone have a reference to a description or an evaluation of the
> move in some Florida counties to move their CPS investigative functions
> to law enforcement.  Any help you can provide would be most
> helpful.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill
>
> William Meezan, DSW, ACSW
> Marion Elizabeth Blue Professor of Children and Families
> School of Social Work
> University of Michigan
> 1080 South University
> Ann Arbor, MI  48105-1106
> (734) 763-3428 (phone)
> (734) 763-3372 (fax)
> meezan@xxxxxxxxx

Charlie Ferguson, Ed.M., M.S.W.
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Title IV-E Waiver Demonstration Project Evaluation
Center for Social Services Research
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Bill
A good source that distinguishes these terms is:
Wright, R. Jr., Saleebey, D., Watts, T., & Lecca, P. (1983) An
introduction to the transcultural perspective, in Transcultural
Perspectives in the Human Services, Springfield, IL: Thomas, pp. 3-25.

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Dick Schoech
U. TX Arlington, Box 19129, 211 S Cooper, Arl TX 76019-0129
http://www.uta.edu/cussn/



bill higgins wrote:

>There is a lot of discussion on race. Could someone
>point me towards a reference that discusses the
>differences between race, ethnicity and culture? The
>research literature seems to use these terms
>interchangeably.
>
>Bill
>
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