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Message ID: 11191
Date: 2023-03-19

Author:Johnson-Motoyama, Michelle

Subject:CALL FOR PROPOSALS EXTENDED: Envisioning New Approaches to Child Welfare and Social Care for Marginalized Children and Families

**We invite you to distribute this updated call for papers broadly throughout your networks.** Envisioning New Approaches to Child Welfare and Social Care for Marginalized Children and Families Recently, calls have been made to reimagine existing child welfare systems in parts of North America given historical roots in discriminatory, Eurocentric and anti-Black practices, the modern day overrepresentation of Black, Indigenous, and socioeconomically disadvantaged children involved with the child welfare system, and limited progress toward meaningful reform. Others argue that the current child protective services response can be improved but is necessary to protect vulnerable children. The primary purpose of this special issue is to present thoughtful contributions that grapple with the tension between these positions and offer visions of alternatives to the status quo. Guest editors: Dr. Michelle Johnson-Motoyama, Dr. Elizabeth Fernandez, Dr. Darcey Merritt and Dr. Aron Shlonsky Special issue information: Most nations have enacted policies and programs to respond to the needs of children when parents, guardians, or other caregivers are unable or unwilling to provide care. However, countries vary considerably in their approaches to caring for vulnerable and marginalized children. Over time, the child welfare systems in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and other countries have evolved into governmental responses to children and families in crisis that rely on public surveillance with child safety as a guiding principle. Services, when provided, tend to be remedial, treatment oriented and time limited. This special issue invites manuscripts that grapple with the tension between these positions and offer visions of alternatives to the status quo. The editors invite a range of submissions for this special issue including original scientific studies; systematic reviews; critical and innovative theoretical, conceptual, and thought pieces; book reviews; policy reviews; and other scholarly contributions. We invite submissions from a broad range of potential contributors including, but not limited to researchers, organizational leaders, program staff, funders, policy makers, service users, and other community members. Manuscript submission information: * All submissions will proceed through the journal’s double blind peer review process. * To determine if your proposed manuscript may be a fit for this special issue, please submit a brief synopsis of 400 to 500 words to Michelle Johnson-Motoyama at johnson-motoyama.1@osu.edu by April 15, 2023. If you have already submitted a synopsis there is no need to resubmit. * Invitations for full manuscripts will be sent to authors by May 15, 2023. * Full manuscripts will be due by September 15, 2023 for authors who receive invitations. * The special issue publication date is scheduled for late January 2024/early February 2024. Keywords: child maltreatment prevention, child abuse and neglect, racial disproportionality, child welfare reform **We invite you to distribute this updated call for papers broadly throughout your networks.** https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/children-and-youth-services-review/about/call-for-papers#envisioning-new-approaches-to-child-welfare-and-social-care-for-marginalized-children-and-families Michelle Johnson-Motoyama, Ph.D., M.S.W. Professor & Associate Dean Guest Editor, Children and Youth Services Review, Envisioning New Approaches to Child Welfare and Social Care for Marginalized Children and Families College of Social Work 425G Stillman Hall, 1947 College Road, Columbus, OH 43210 614-688-2491 Office johnson-motoyama.1@osu.edu https://csw.osu.edu Pronouns: She/her/hers

**We invite you to distribute this updated call for papers broadly throughout your networks.** Envisioning New Approaches to Child Welfare and Social Care for Marginalized Children and Families Recently, calls have been made to reimagine existing child welfare systems in parts of North America given historical roots in discriminatory, Eurocentric and anti-Black practices, the modern day overrepresentation of Black, Indigenous, and socioeconomically disadvantaged children involved with the child welfare system, and limited progress toward meaningful reform. Others argue that the current child protective services response can be improved but is necessary to protect vulnerable children. The primary purpose of this special issue is to present thoughtful contributions that grapple with the tension between these positions and offer visions of alternatives to the status quo. Guest editors: Dr. Michelle Johnson-Motoyama, Dr. Elizabeth Fernandez, Dr. Darcey Merritt and Dr. Aron Shlonsky Special issue information: Most nations have enacted policies and programs to respond to the needs of children when parents, guardians, or other caregivers are unable or unwilling to provide care. However, countries vary considerably in their approaches to caring for vulnerable and marginalized children. Over time, the child welfare systems in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and other countries have evolved into governmental responses to children and families in crisis that rely on public surveillance with child safety as a guiding principle. Services, when provided, tend to be remedial, treatment oriented and time limited. This special issue invites manuscripts that grapple with the tension between these positions and offer visions of alternatives to the status quo. The editors invite a range of submissions for this special issue including original scientific studies; systematic reviews; critical and innovative theoretical, conceptual, and thought pieces; book reviews; policy reviews; and other scholarly contributions. We invite submissions from a broad range of potential contributors including, but not limited to researchers, organizational leaders, program staff, funders, policy makers, service users, and other community members. Manuscript submission information: * All submissions will proceed through the journal’s double blind peer review process. * To determine if your proposed manuscript may be a fit for this special issue, please submit a brief synopsis of 400 to 500 words to Michelle Johnson-Motoyama at johnson-motoyama.1osu.edu by April 15, 2023. If you have already submitted a synopsis there is no need to resubmit. * Invitations for full manuscripts will be sent to authors by May 15, 2023. * Full manuscripts will be due by September 15, 2023 for authors who receive invitations. * The special issue publication date is scheduled for late January 2024/early February 2024. Keywords: child maltreatment prevention, child abuse and neglect, racial disproportionality, child welfare reform **We invite you to distribute this updated call for papers broadly throughout your networks.** https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/children-and-youth-services-review/about/call-for-papers#envisioning-new-approaches-to-child-welfare-and-social-care-for-marginalized-children-and-families Michelle Johnson-Motoyama, Ph.D., M.S.W. Professor & Associate Dean Guest Editor, Children and Youth Services Review, Envisioning New Approaches to Child Welfare and Social Care for Marginalized Children and Families College of Social Work 425G Stillman Hall, 1947 College Road, Columbus, OH 43210 614-688-2491 Office johnson-motoyama.1osu.edu https://csw.osu.edu Pronouns: She/her/hers