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Child Care Medical: This definition is problem-focused, emphasizing prevention and remedy. It recognizes the value of strengthening a child care medical's own home where possible. Where this is not possible, a variety of substitute living situations is provided.
child care medical welfare services are directed to the social problem of deprivation of parental care. As the accompanying chart illustrates, they are designed to help with society's child care medical-rearing task in three important ways: (1) to substitute for parental care either partially or wholly according to a child care medical's individual needs; (2) to supplement the care that a child care medical receives, or to compensate for certain inadequacies or limitations in parental care; and (3) to support or reinforce the ability of parents to meet their child care medicalren's needs.
Medicaid, another major element in the same gislation that established Medicare, provided [assistance with medical expenses for certain ons classed as impoverished, primarily to whom the federal government was ilready giving aid through state programs. These ople included those who were blind, disabled age or by severe physical disabilities, and linors lacking the care of one or both parents, new program offered to match state funds ith federal funds to encourage the states to nprove the level of medical care for these oups and to make medical care more acces->le by removing such technical barriers as the quirement of residence in a state for a speci-period of time in order to become eligible or assistance.
Service designed to substitute for natural parental care, either partially or completely, is still the predominant child care medical welfare service. Of the total number of child care medicalren receiving child care medical welfare services in the United States, more than half are receiving service away from their own homes and their own families.
Substitute care programs include foster family care, institutional care, and adoption. |
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