Supporting the Mental Health of Families Involved With Child Welfare
This paper explores poor mental health and substance use of parents, which can lead to maltreatment of children, resulting in child welfare involvement. The paper will present a brief history of child welfare involvement with families and highlight the connections between mental health, substance use, and maltreatment of children. A literature review will be provided to substantiate the factors that lead families into child welfare involvement such as services that are provided to the families, the efficacy of those services, the limitations or barriers that keep families in this population from becoming successful, and recommendations for CMHC on how best to support this population.
CMHC 699, Capstone
Abraham Cazares-Cervantes
Siefke 100
1 – 2 PM