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Family-Centered Practice Approaches

Family-centered, community-based principles are at the heart of a number of practice approaches being implemented across program areas and service systems. These approaches are used at different points in the helping process for purposes of assessment, case planning, and decision-making, and to address identified needs and concerns. Some are developed to address a specific population, such as substance-involved families or families of prisoners.

• Family group decision-making approaches
• Neighborhood-based foster care
• Alternative response
• Shared family care
• Family mediation
• Family-centered substance abuse treatment
• Services to children and families of prisoners
• Other family-centered practice approaches

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Updated on February 2, 2010