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Related Resources: Introduction to Family Support
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: Family Support Services
Child Welfare League of America National Data Analysis System (2003)
Reports on this website show the number of children and families in family support programs.
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.
Family Support Services (PDF - 183 KB)
Center for the Study of Social Policy (2004)
How several early childhood programs have structured their family support services.
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.
Protecting Children by Strengthening Families: A Guidebook for Early Childhood Programs (PDF - 2090 KB)
Center for the Study of Social Policy (2004)
Guidelines for early childhood programs that are considering the application of the 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.
Safe Children and Healthy Families are a Shared Responsibility: 2006 Community Resource Packet [includes poster] = Los Niños Fuera de Peligro y las Familias Saludables son una Responsabilidad Compartida: Sea un HÉROE en su Comunidad (2006)
Written in both English and Spanish, this information packet contains resources designed to help communities, organizations, and individuals raise public awareness about supporting families and preventing child abuse and neglect. The packet includes the following: an overview of family support and how it can help prevent abuse and neglect; what organizations can do to promote safe children and healthy families, including building on family strengths; tips for building successful collaborations; ways organizations can develop and deliver effective messages to promote family support; examples of community awareness activities including a sample article written for the Opinion/Editorial (OpEd) section of a local ...
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.
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