CWLA Press is pleased to present our latest signature publication, the six-part Child and Family-Serving Systems: Compendium of Policy & Practice (Ramona Denby-Brinson, UNC School of Social Work, and Charlene Ingram, CWLA, editors).

This collection—essential to educators in social work and allied fields, and to child- and family-serving professionals such as health care practitioners, mental health care practitioners, legal personnel, state and local child welfare staff, and others—explores practice approaches, program implementation, policy analysis, and evaluation and research components of child welfare.

To order the full Compendium set or purchase individual volumes, see our Bookstore. For questions about bulk ordering, international orders, or other purchasing queries, contact Marlene Saulsbury, director of publications, at msaulsbury@cwla.org.

View each volume’s Table of Contents here.


The Compendium includes:

Volume I: Evolution of Protecting, Strengthening, and Sustaining Children and Families
Introduction by Mark Testa

Volume II: Approaches to Child and Family Protection: Core Opportunities and Challenges in Child- and Family-Serving Systems
Introduction by Eun Koh

Volume III: Approaches to Family and Child Support and Sustainability
Part I Introduction by Jim Gleeson, Part II Introduction by Charlene Ingram

Volume IV: Science and Data Translation into Practice and Policy
Introduction by Rick Barth

Volume V: Inter-Professional Workforce Supervision and Development
Introduction by Peter Pecora