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Creating a Family-Centered Agency Culture: State & Local Examples
State and local agencies have undertaken a variety of initiatives to move their practice toward a more family-centered approach to services. Agency materials and outside studies provide examples of such efforts, including descriptions, assessments, evaluation tools, supervisory tools, and training curricula.
A State Call to Action: Working Together to End Child Abuse and Neglect in Wisconsin (PDF - 444 KB)
Strategies for shifting the focus and funding of public and private organizations to alternative service delivery methods that value prevention through statewide community-based programs and actions.
Combining Child Welfare and Welfare Reform at a Local Level
Berns & Drake
Policy and Practice, 57(1), 1999
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The El Paso County, Colorado, Department of Human Services applied a set of common principles to child welfare services and programs funded with a Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant to create a flexible system of services that would promote prevention and family support. The new system resulted in decreases in the foster care population and residential treatment placements.
Developing Child Welfare Services From the Ground Up: A Multidisciplinary Approach (PDF - 322 KB)
Holnbeck, DeJaegher, & Schumacher
Envision: The Manitoba Journal of Child Welfare, 2(2), 2003
Provides a description and initial assessment of the process used to develop a comprehensive model that will guide delivery of services to the Métis, Non-Status, and Inuit people in Manitoba. The model incorporates a set of core principles along with a recommendation for the establishment of strength-based, family-focused service centers located in communities throughout the province.
Family-Centered Practice: How Are We Doing? (PDF - 193 KB)
Rhode Island Coalition for Family Support and Involvement (2004)
A tool for families, providers, schools and communities to evaluate and improve how individuals and organizations in Rhode Island support families.
Family-Centered Supervision in Child Welfare
North Carolina Division of Social Services and the Family and Children's Resource Program
Children's Services Practice Notes, 9(1), 2003
Describes how a family-centered approach can be incorporated into supervisory practice.
Helping the System Help Kids: A Community's Role in Creating a Better Child Welfare System
Grand Rapids Foundation (1998)
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Describes reforms in the Kent County, Michigan, child welfare system that were intended to empower families and focus attention on the prevention of maltreatment.
Making the TANF/Child Welfare Connection for Family-Centered Practice (PDF - 153 KB)
Turner
North Carolina Journal for Families and Children, Winter 2001
Describes activities sponsored by the North Carolina State Association of County Directors of Social Services to initiate the TANF/Child Welfare Collaborative pilot project to strengthen families, reduce poverty, and improve the safety and economic security of families receiving financial assistance.
New Cornerstone Series Promotes Family-Centered Practice
North Carolina Department of Social Services
Training Matters, 4(3), 2003
Describes a four-curriculum training series built around six principles of partnership designed to promote and guide supervisors and workers in their pursuit of family-centered practice.
Questions That Promote Family-Centered Practice
North Carolina Division of Social Services and the Family and Children's Resource Program
Children's Services Practice Notes, 9(1), 2003
Questions that employ elements of scaling and strengths-based techniques, allowing supervisors to adopt a not-knowing stance that will encourage workers to devise their own family-centered solutions.
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