Examining the Role of Child Welfare in Addressing the Needs of the CSEC Population in Kentucky

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Examining the Role of Child Welfare in Addressing the Needs of the CSEC Population in Kentucky

Case

Reference no. HKS2076.0

Subject category: Ethics and Social Responsibility

Authors: Julie Boatright Wilson (Harvard Kennedy School); Pamela Lachmann (Harvard Kennedy School)

Published by: Harvard Kennedy School

Published in: 2016

Length: 17 pages

Data source: Field research

Topics: Social services; Children & youth; Government policy; Policy making; Non-profit organizations; State government; Social policy

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Abstract

In 2013 the Kentucky legislature passed legislation that made the child welfare agency responsible for investigating reported cases of Commercially Sexually Exploited Children and responding to their needs, but gave them no additional resources. What is the nature of the CSEC problem in Kentucky? How do these youth come to the attention of DCBS? How does DCBS respond to their needs? It is not clear that this policy was designed in a way that it could ever be effective? Why did Kentucky choose this strategy? What can other states learn?

Locations:

United States; Kentucky

Industry:

Public administration