Future Directions in the Delivery of Child Welfare Services:Reimbursement, System Design, and Managed Care Demonstrations

August 12, 2002 Future Directions in the Delivery of Child Welfare Services: Reimbursement, System Design, and Managed Care DemonstrationsAcross the nation, state child and welfare systems serve some of the most vulnerable children and troubled families in our society. Protecting children from neglect and abuse, placing children in caring foster and/or adoptive homes and striving to reunite families to keep them from falling apart is a tremendous challenge. The nation faces a daunting task as the number of children within the "system" steadily increases. Managed care demonstrations may be contributing to rather than solving problems by creating barriers to . . .