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Family Involvement in Public Child Welfare Driven Systems of Care
A Closer Look
Author(s): National Technical Assistance and Evaluation Center for Systems of Care
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| Year Published: 2008 |
Almost 80 percent of abused or neglected children will remain or return to live with their family of
origin. (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2005.)
This issue* of A Closer Look examines:
- Definitions of family involvement;
- Families in child welfare, yesterday and today;
- Grant communities respond to challenges in strengthening family involvement;
- Operationalizing family involvement in system change; and
- What leaders can do to support family-agency partnerships for system transformation.
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Improving Child Welfare Outcomes Through Systems of Care
In 2003, the Children's Bureau funded nine demonstration grants to test the efficacy of a systems of care approach to improving outcomes for children and families involved in the child welfare system and to address policy, practice, and cross-system collaboration issues raised by the Child and Family Services Reviews. Specifically, this initiative is designed to promote infrastructure change and strengthen the capacity of human service agencies to support families involved in public child welfare through a set of six guiding principles:
- Interagency collaboration;
- Individualized strengths-based care;
- Cultural and linguistic competence;
- Child, youth, and family involvement;
- Community-based services, and;
- Accountability.
A Closer Look is a series of short reports that spotlight issues addressed by public child welfare agencies and their partners in implementing systems of care approaches to improve services and outcomes for children and families. These reports draw on the experiences of nine communities participating in the Children's Bureau's Improving Child Welfare Outcomes Through Systems of Care demonstration initiative, and summarize their challenges, promising practices, and lessons learned. Each issue of A Closer Look provides information communities nationwide can use in planning, implementing, and evaluating effective child welfare driven systems of care, and is intended as a tool for administrators and policy-makers leading system change initiatives.
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* The National Technical Assistance and Evaluation Center wishes to thank the following family leaders and agency practitioners for their contributions to the development of this resource: Cheryl Barrett, Parent Partner, Partnering4Permanency, Martinez, CA; Sharri Black, Family Involvement Coordinator, Family Centered Systems of Care, Topeka, KS; Judi Knittel, Parent Partner Coordinator, Partnering4Permanency, Martinez, CA; and Helen Spence, Systems of Care Outreach Coordinator, Dauphin County, Children and Youth, Harrisburg, PA. back
This material may be freely reproduced and distributed. However, when doing so, please credit Child Welfare Information Gateway.
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