child welfare agency
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- noun
- /tʃaɪld ˈwɛlˌfɛr ˈeɪdʒənsi/
:
agencia de bienestar infantil
- Although findings from these focus groups must be viewed with caution, as they are specific to particular communities, the findings may provide valuable information to child welfare agencies engaged in efforts to address disproportionality.
- a public child welfare agency
- a private child welfare agency
- a state child welfare agency
Examples
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Given the significant interaction between the legal and child welfare systems, child welfare agencies need to understand how the legal community views their system and service delivery in order to effectively address disproportionality.
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But a court system is only as good as the child welfare agency that investigates the cases and provides services to families.
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What have been your experiences with the child welfare agency?
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For example, suppose I want to understand the behavior of a child welfare agency.
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Initially, a nonprofit child welfare agency provided release time for a social worker to develop this experimental program.
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Child welfare workforce turnover rates across private and public child welfare agencies are concerning.
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Child welfare agencies that provide services to children need to examine their policies concerning fathers.
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Lucas's adoption was approved by the Florida child welfare agency, which failed to investigate abuse complaints before he was beaten and starved to death.
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Here, we posit a new and empirically rigorous methodology that child welfare agencies can use to set and maintain a reasonable workload and caseload, which is paramount to effective functioning.
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The local child welfare agency helps families secure the resources they need to care for their children.
Synonyms
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A group that protects children and gives them social help and job training
How Official
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an organization responsible for protecting children's well-being' is directly and predictably derived from combining 'child' + 'welfare' + 'agency'; the compound follows standard English noun-composition patterns and is not idiomatic. Equivalent constructions exist in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Child welfare agency comes from the words child (a young person), welfare (health and well-being), and agency (an organization). Imagine a team that watches over children, keeps them safe, and gives help like counseling or training, so it means 'an organization that protects children's well-being and provides support'.