Designing Policy to Serve Children With Special Medical Needs in Child Welfare: Lessons From New York City

Journal of Public Child Welfare

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 549-565

  Rosenblum, Randi ^a   Ross, Timothy A ^a  

^a Action Research   (United States)

Author keywords

assessment; child maltreatment; child protection; organizations systems; policy issues

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890772867     PISSN: 15548732     EISSN: 15548740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15548732.2013.857629     Document Type: Article

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