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Resources that offer an introduction to family support services.
Building on Family Strengths: Research and Services in Support of Children and Their Families: 2002 Conference Proceedings (PDF - 2175 KB)
Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health (2004)
Transcriptions of keynote and plenary addresses and summaries of papers, symposia, and poster presentations.
Creating Parenting-Rich Communities (PDF - 996 KB)
Child Welfare League of America (2004)
Annotated bibliography featuring articles and other publications that explore general parenting research, parent relationships, parent training, at-risk parenting, parenting and ethnicity, parenting young children, and parenting adolescents.
Family Preservation and Support: Past, Present and Future
Briar, Ronnau, Broussard, & Sallee
Family Preservation Journal, Summer 1995
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An overview of the past, present, and future of the family preservation and support approach to policy and services. Discusses critical issues facing the movement, and presents a set of benchmarks to judge future success.
From Front Line to Family Home: A Youth Care Approach to Working With Families
Shaw & Garfat
Child and Family Services, 25(1/2), 2003
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Explores the shifts that occur when child and youth care workers begin to move from the relative safety of a residential program into the community to support families to live together more successfully in their own homes.
Information Packet: Family Preservation and Preventive Programs: Alternatives to Foster Care Placement (PDF - 88 KB)
Horchak-Andino (2003)
Overview of family preservation services and other programs designed to prevent child maltreatment and foster care placement.
Key Program Elements: Family Support Services (PDF - 183 KB)
Center for the Study of Social Policy (2004)
Describes how several early childhood programs have structured their family support services and identifies challenges for supporting families.
Strengthening Families: A Guidebook for Early Childhood Programs (PDF - 2090 KB)
Center for the Study of Social Policy (2007, 2nd ed.)
Presents guidelines for early childhood programs considering a family strengths framework to develop a culture of respect among staff, design the physical space to accommodate necessary activities, involve men, collaborate with child welfare staff, deliver family support services, provide mental health consultation, and serve families and children with special needs.
| Strengthening Families and Communities: 2011 Resource Guide. | |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway, Children's Bureau, FRIENDS National Resource Center For Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention, Center for the Study of Social Policy-Strengthening Families |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 2,632KB) |
| Year Published: | 2011 - 94 pages |
| This Resource Guide was written to support service providers in their work with parents, caregivers, and their children to strengthen families and prevent child abuse and neglect. The guide includes information about protective factors that help reduce the risk of child maltreatment, strategies for changing how communities support families, and evidence-informed practices. It also offers suggestions for enhancing protective factors in families, tools to build awareness and develop community partnerships, information about child abuse and neglect, a directory of national organizations that work to strengthen families, and tip sheets in English and Spanish on specific parenting topics. | |
Supporting Parents: Messages From Research
Quinton (2004)
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Activities and outcomes of a project that sought to identify ways parents in the United Kingdom might be helped to look after their children, and to move social services away from an emphasis on family and parenting problems.