How to Reform the Failing Child Welfare System

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 17, 2017

Richard Gelles, former dean and chair of the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice and the author of Out of Harm's Way: Creating an Effective Child Welfare System (Oxford University Press, 2017), explains the major problems in the child welfare system, which still leaves too many children at risk for harm, and offers solutions on how to fix the broken system.

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