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Planning & Implementing Family Support Programs

Information and descriptions of efforts to plan and implement family support programs throughout the United States. Includes types of services provided, policies and procedures, mission statements, vision statements, agreements, intake forms, assessments, checklists, permission forms, service plans, and details about funding streams and the programs they support.

Family Support Document Bank
Office of Child Abuse Prevention, California Department of Social Services
Sample documents and forms used by family support projects.

Family Support Program Development: Integrating Research, Practice and Policy
Carrilio
Journal of Family Social Work, 6(3), 2001
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Reports on the development of the Integrated Team Case Management approach, intended to integrate knowledge into social work programs to meet current policy needs.

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.

Strengthening Families With Young Children (PDF - 615 KB)
Aquinde, Chen, & Luu
The Source, 14(1), 2005
Highlights a program developed to increase resilience and reduce risk factors for behavioral, emotional, academic, and social problems.

Toward Building a Typology for the Evaluation of Services in Family Support Programs
Manalo & Meezan
Child Welfare, 79(4), 2000
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Introduces a new typology that deconstructs family support programs into their component services based on the primary recipient.

Understanding the Parenting Support Needs of Maltreating Parents and Their Children (PDF - 482 KB)
Kuehnle, Becker, & Lynn (2002)
Examines family reunification practice in Hillsborough County, Florida, to identify opportunities to support parents when their children are returned to their care.

Walking Our Talk in the Neighborhoods: Building Professional/Natural Helper Partnerships
Kinney & Trent
Family Preservation Journal, 7, 2003
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Describes efforts in Tacoma, Washington, to establish professional and natural helper partnerships to work with families involved in the child protective service system.

Updated on December 7, 2007