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Special Issues

These studies focus on issues in providing and evaluating family support services, including training for family support providers and concepts such as resiliency and mentoring.

Building on Family Strengths Conference Proceedings
Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health
Transcripts of keynote and plenary addresses and summaries of paper and symposia presentations from the annual Building on Family Strengths Conference since 1994.

Developing and Implementing Outcomes Training in the Field of Family Support: A Case Example
Reed-Ashcraft, Smithdeal, Kittle, Sharma, & McClune
Professional Development: The International Journal of Continuing Social Work Education, 7(1), 2004
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Describes a training program to instruct family support providers in the use of a standardized version of the North Carolina Family Support Outcome Scales.

Mentoring as a Family Strengthening Strategy (PDF - 100 KB)
National Human Services Assembly, Family Strengthening Policy Center
Policy Brief, 4, 2004
Explores how mentoring services can strengthen families by involving parents in adult-youth relationship programs and applying mentoring concepts to family services.

The Value of Resilience as a Key Concept in Evaluating Family Support
Gilligan (2003)
In Evaluating Family Support: Thinking Internationally, Thinking Critically
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Defines resilience and explains the implications of a resilience perspective for program evaluation.

Updated on September 18, 2008