Are We Prepared? Child Welfare Work With Parents With Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities

Journal of Public Child Welfare

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 633-657

  LaLiberte, Traci L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

child protection; child welfare; disabilities; policy issues; training; workforce issues

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890721284     PISSN: 15548732     EISSN: 15548740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15548732.2013.861382     Document Type: Article

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