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State and Local Examples: Family Support Services
Resources and information about the development, implementation, and evaluation of family-focused, community-based interventions to prevent child abuse and neglect, offer assistance to families, provide early support for parents, promote the development of parenting skills, increase family stability, and improve family access to community resources.
Combining Child Welfare and Welfare Reform at a Local Level
Berns & Drake
Policy and Practice, 57(1), 1999
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Describes a flexible system of services to promote prevention and family support funded under a Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant in El Paso County, Colorado.
Community-Based Family Resource and Support Grant Program: South Dakota State Annual Program Report: Fiscal Year 2000
South Dakota Department of Social Services (2000)
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Details efforts to expand a parenting education program throughout the State and summarizes the findings of a peer review process.
Conducting Community Assessments: Project Maine Families Cumberland County Initiative (PDF - 103 KB)
Project Maine Families & National Child Welfare Resource Center for Management and Administration (1994)
Explains how communities in one Maine county learned about the needs of children and their families and how they organized activities to support families.
Family-Centered, Home-Based Prevention Strategies for Vulnerable Families of Young Children
Marcenko (1999)
In Young Children and Foster Care: A Guide for Professionals
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An evaluation of a home-based child abuse prevention program for substance abusing mothers of children younger than 2 years.
Family Connections Intervention Manual: Helping Families Meet the Basic Needs of Their Children
University of Maryland School of Social Work (2003)
Provides information on engaging families as partners in a community-based intervention project to help parents meet children's basic needs and reduce the risk of neglect.
Family Reclaim: A Community-Based Collaborative to Strengthen Families With Substance Abuse and Neglect Issues
Chambers (2002)
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Lessons learned from a program offering community- and home-based services to families at risk of child abuse and neglect, which specifically targets families experiencing multiple problems in Oakland, California.
Family Support and Intervention for Neglected Preschool Children
University of Rochester (2002)
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Description and preliminary evaluation of an early intervention program designed to enhance child development and improve family functioning in the context of environmental risk factors.
Family Support Model: Integrating Service Delivery in the Twenty-First Century
Leon
Families in Society, 80(1), 1999
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Examines a family support model that provides quality, community-based, client-driven, and outcome-based services to children and families in Orange County, Florida.
The Family Support Project Evaluation
Owen & Fercello (1999)
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Description and evaluation of a family support program to prevent child abuse and neglect among families at risk of involvement in the child protective service system in Ramsey County, Minnesota.
Great Starts...Footprints on the Heart
Pack
The Source, 10(3), 2001
Describes an evaluation of a program in Knoxville, Tennessee, that provides a wide variety of services to substance abusing and HIV-infected mothers and their children.
The Homefriends Program
Center for Intergenerational Learning (2001)
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Reports on a child abuse prevention program for families of children with disabilities in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Policy, Practice and Training: Pillars of Family Support in Washington State
Lalley
America's Family Support Magazine, 18(3), 1999
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Describes a statewide initiative that promotes collaboration between communities, practitioners, policymakers, and trainers to improve family relationships.
Prevent Child Abuse Iowa's Young Families Initiative: Final Report, Federal Fiscal Year 2005 (PDF - 528 KB)
Prevent Child Abuse Iowa (2005)
Overview and evaluation of an initiative designed to reduce the risk of child abuse by developing and enhancing networks of community-based, prevention-focused, family support programs that offer assistance to families, provide early support for parents, promote the development of parenting skills, increase family stability, and improve family access to community resources.
A Preventive Services Program Model for Preserving and Supporting Families Over Time
Hess, McGowan, & Botsko
Child Welfare, 79(3), 2000
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Study of a program in Brooklyn, New York, that combines elements of both family preservation and family support services to provide a comprehensive, individualized response to families in need and prevent the unnecessary placement of children in care.
Project Milagro
Kappos, Cristo, & Carranza (2004)
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Activities and outcomes of a project that provided home-based services to reduce the risk of child abandonment in families of at-risk Latina women impacted by HIV/AIDS and/or substance abuse in Los Angeles, California.
Prop. 10: Weaving a Web of Support for Young Children and Families: A Children's Advocate Special Report on Prop. 10 in the Bay Area (PDF - 222 KB)
Action Alliance for Children (2001)
Highlights California programs developed as a result of legislation passed by voters in 1998 to provide additional resources for services for young children.
"Pueblo de Apoyo" = "Village of Support": Abandoned Infants Assistance Program: Final Project Report
Bienvenidos Children's Center (2000)
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Report on a Los Angeles, California program based on Latino cultural values regarding family life with the goal of preventing infant abandonment among HIV-infected or substance-abusing Latina mothers by helping them to develop networks of support.
Resources: 2004 Summary
FRIENDS National Resource Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention (2005)
Annual reports submitted by CBCAP lead agencies in all 50 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
Standards of Practice and Performance Workbook (PDF - 116 KB)
Baltimore's Success by 6 Partnership (2004)
Checklist developed to help funded agencies assess adherence to best practices for supporting families with young children.
Standards for Prevention Programs: Building Success Through Family Support (PDF - 638 KB)
New Jersey Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect (2003)
Standards for New Jersey child abuse and neglect prevention programs.
The State of Family Support: Seven-Year Gains From the Family Support America States Initiative
Family Support America (2002)
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Describes the state of family support in the United States based on intensive work with eight States over 7 years, and on additional research conducted on a total of 16 States.
Strategies
Provides training and technical assistance to family resource centers and family support programs throughout California.
Supporting Families Makes a Difference: A Partnership for Prevention and Well-Being (PDF - 87 KB)
Biddleman & Doyle
Protecting Children, 17(2), 2002
Describes a partnership between two programs to increase the effectiveness of activities designed to improve child safety, parent involvement, and community support for families in Pinellas County, Florida.
Valley Youth House Family Intervention Project
Valley Youth House Committee (2001)
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Describes a program to improve parenting skills, reduce the negative effects of neglect for children, and prevent involvement with child welfare services in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
A Vision and Plan for Improving Child Well Being and Strengthening Families in Wisconsin Using Service Integration as the Path (PDF - 107 KB)
Wisconsin Association of Family and Children's Agencies (2003)
Describes the El Paso County, Colorado child welfare model, which coordinated child welfare and income support services to respond to families with multiple needs, and discusses planned implementation of that model in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.
Year Four Evaluation Report Executive Summary (PDF - 79 KB)
Birth and Beyond (2004)
Findings from an evaluation of a home visitation program in Sacramento, California.
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