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Relationship Between Family Support, Family Preservation, Child Protection, & Child Welfare Services
Two types of family-centered services—family support services and family preservation services—are used in a number of important ways that relate to child protection and child welfare.
- Family support services are used to strengthen the ability of families to care for their children. These services can be employed as a preventive measure, to address parenting concerns, to assist families in reunifying, and to support families postpermanency.
- Family preservation services are most often employed to prevent unnecessary placement of children, to speed reunification, and as a postpermanency service when families are at risk of disruption.
Connecting these services to child protective and child welfare services is vital to ensuring that children and families receive a coordinated, individualized service response.
Balancing Family-Centered Services and Child Well-Being: Exploring Issues in Policy, Practice, Theory, and Research
Walton, Sandau-Beckler, & Mannes (Eds.) (2001)
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Argues that a balance between the well-being of the family and the well-being of the child is possible.
Child Protective Services and Domestic Violence
Findlater & Kelly
Future of Children, 9(3), 1999
Describes emerging collaborative efforts between child protective services and domestic violence programs, based on a common goal of safety from violence for all family members.
Connecting Family Preservation and Family Support: The Family Partnership Project
Allen, Zalenski, Day, & Gruenwald
Prevention Report, Spring 1994
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Summarizes the results of a meeting sponsored by the Family Partnership Project that focused on the coordination of family preservation and family support services. Includes information on programs, service delivery, obstacles, and strategies.
Creating a Constructive Practice: Family and Professional Partnership in High-Risk Child Protection Case Conferences
Lohrbach & Sawyer
Protecting Children, 19(2), 2004
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Details the implementation of family case conferencing in the Rochester, Minnesota, juvenile court system involving children determined to be at high risk of maltreatment.
Enhancing Investigative Decisions in Child Welfare: An Exploratory Use of Intensive Family Preservation Services
Walton
Child Welfare, 76(3), 1997
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Investigative decisions in a child welfare agency were enhanced when brief, intensive family preservation services were used during child protective services investigations. Children were more likely to remain in their own homes and less likely to have an open case.
Family Preservation in Perspective
Maluccio & Fein
Family Preservation Journal, 6(1), 2002
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Argues that permanency planning services, especially family preservation initiatives, remain relevant for child welfare programs despite concerns about their ability to protect children.
A New Direction in Child Welfare in North Carolina
North Carolina Division of Social Services and the Family and Children's Resource Program
Children's Services Practice Notes, 7(4), 2002
Describes the historical conflict between the need to protect children and desire to engage and support families, and North Carolina's efforts to embrace a more solution-focused, family-centered approach.
Reframing Child Safety in Michigan: Building Collaboration Among Domestic Violence, Family Preservation, and Child Protection Services
Findlater & Kelly
Child Maltreatment, 4(2), 1999
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Discusses the development of Michigan's collaborative efforts among domestic violence, family preservation, and child protection programs, including the identification of obstacles that had prevented cooperation in the past.
Seeking the Balance Between Child Protection and Family Preservation in Indian Child Welfare
Mannes
Child Welfare, 72(2), 1993
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Reviews the emergence of contemporary Indian child welfare, assesses the consequences of the field's devotion to child protection and placement, examines 12 Indian child welfare programs oriented toward family preservation, and considers the implications of family preservation for Native American and Alaska Native people.
Serving the Same Families: Fruitful Relationships Between DSS and Family Resource Centers
North Carolina Division of Social Services and the Family and Children's Resource Program
Children's Services Practice Notes, 5(1), 2000
How county departments of social services in North Carolina are working with community family resource centers to pursue common goals.
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