The child welfare system was created with the goal of social workers attempting to alleviate poverty and its impact; However, over the years, the child welfare system has transformed into a child protection system aimed at investigating abuse and neglect, removing children from families and foster care, and not is more ready to provide assistance in solving the problems of child poverty. (Lindsey, 2004). The child welfare system was developed around a residual approach that requires aid to be provided only after the family is in crisis or other support groups have failed to meet the child's minimum needs. However, over the years, there have been several focuses for the child welfare system, regardless of whether the police are caught up in the stereotype of being tough, determined officers, insensitive to families in their most vulnerable state (Cross, Finkelhor, Ormrod, 2005). This would be an ideal approach to implement; however there appear to be uneasy relationships between the two systems as they both hold different values ​​and beliefs. As an intern at DCFS, I witnessed the “complicated” relationships between the two systems. Some police departments do not believe a dual investigation is necessary; when it is the task of juvenile social assistance to investigate abuse. During an investigation, the police arrived at the house, but he refused to carry out their investigation stating: “you guys are already here, I don't need to be here. I just have to make sure everything goes well and the kids are safe." There could be some improvements in the way the police system is involved in investigating child abuse, in order to allow child welfare workers to focus on providing services to disadvantaged families. Because the workload is high, most child care workers have limited time to work and focus on family matters; Implementing effective prevention strategies will require providing care to the entire family and focusing on both the safety and well-being of the child and the emotional and economic well-being of the parents. The child welfare system can provide resources such as child care for single parents with no education, which limits their employment. Such services can help the family become financially stable and hopefully lift themselves out of poverty. Most of the services provided to families by the child welfare system have very complex requirements that make it almost impossible for them to receive all the resources they need. For example, the child welfare system currently provides the family with a resource package, where the family must contact agency after agency on their own for services, only to be informed that there are fees to receive services or that there are long waiting lists. In most cases, families are therefore discouraged from seeking further assistance. The child welfare system must be able to address the underlying issues facing disadvantaged families, which may play a role in children's upbringing.