Apr 04, 2025  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

HDFS 478 - Child Welfare Foundations


An introduction to child welfare policies and practices in the State of Illinois and the United States. Focuses on the nature and impact of child maltreatment, the ways in which society prevents or responds to the social problem of child maltreatment, and how the child welfare system in Illinois responds to child maltreatment through a life of case lens to ensure safety, permanency, and wellbeing of children and youth in care.

Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: HDFS 230 or HDFS 280; and HDFS 284.

Credits: 3