Yuba County intergenerational child abuse, best practices

Project (M.S.W., Social Work) -- California State University, Sacramento, 2011.Social workers can play a pivotal role in helping families dealing with intergenerational child abuse issues. Appropriate and sufficient services however have to be in place to assist these families in properly addressing these concerns. Without the appropriate and much needed services for these families they will continue to flood the child welfare system in Yuba County. The purpose of this study was identify the factors associated with families who have patterns of intergenerational child abuse in Yuba County and the best practices in working with these families. This study was a mixed method study utilizing secondary data from the Child Welfare Services/Case Management System (CWS/CMS) and qualitative date from service provider interviews. Drug abuse and child neglect are the common factors that transfer from generation to generation. There is a need for intensive and centralized wraparound services to these families. Implications for social work, recommendations for services and future research are also discussed.Social Wor