ABSTRACT
Social workers concerned with community practice rarely look to child welfare intervention as a place to explore excellence in this approach. The profession’s tradition of dichotomizing clinical and community based interventions has resulted in assumptions that child welfare work is limited to case management
activities, individual intervention and clinical work. This article seeks to present a different view of child welfare workers and their practice by presenting research findings that demonstrate the significance of community practice and resistance in the context of child welfare work.
