“The grief and the sadness over the events of September 11 have affected many people with shocking immediacy. Whereas the events themselves brought the country to a brief standstill, these events were really only the beginning of what we must now understand and confront if we are to continue to make progress and improvements in the child welfare system. A broad range of consequences flow from that day magnifying other social and economic trends. The events themselves and the rippling aftershocks will produce substantial effects in child welfare. These effects may be difficult to document, but they do require a response. In this issue of Best Practice/Next Practice we have set ourselves a challenging task: connecting the effects of September 11 to child welfare populations and presenting strategies to improve practice with families affected by trauma.” – Publisher’s description
