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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.
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.
Is Your Organization Family Friendly? Find Out, With the Family Friendly Check List: Agency Edition (PDF - 176 KB)
Family Support Council (Ohio) (2007)
Helps agencies determine whether they are family friendly in the areas of agency administration, information sharing, welcoming environment, family involvement, decision-making, meetings inclusion, accessibility, and service evaluation.
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.