Quoted: “The best-practice thinking these days has been to start providing access to these services earlier, before children are victims of abuse or neglect and before they have to be removed from their homes,” said Ellen Smith, the child welfare training coordinator at UW-Madison’s School of Social Work.
“There is a lot of interest in supporting biological families to prevent abuse and/or out-of-home placements rather than spending all of our limited funding to pay for out-of-home care costs.”