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Family-Centered Assessment
Family-centered assessment is a process designed to gain a greater understanding about the family's strengths, needs, and resources affect the child's safety, permanency, and well-being.
Family-centered assessment should be strengths-based, culturally sensitive, individualized, and developed in partnership with the family. The strengths identified will provide the foundation upon which the family can make changes.
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National Resource Center for Family-Centered Practice and Permanency Planning
A training, technical assistance, and information services organization dedicated to helping strengthen the capacity of State, local, tribal, and other publicly administered or supported child welfare agencies to institutionalize a safety-focused, family-centered, and community-based approach to meet the needs of children, youth, and families.
Empowering Children and Families Through Strength-Based Assessment
American Institutes for Research, Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice (2000)
Provides a rationale for using a strength-based assessment approach in planning services for children.
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Administrative and Standardized Assessment Data to Measure Safety, Permanency, and Well-being: Experience in Philadelphia
Randall, Kutzler, & Halnon
Protecting Children, 18(3), 2004
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Discusses the move toward an outcomes-based system by the Philadelphia Department of Human Services Children and Youth Division.
Assessment: A Sourcebook for Social Work Practice
Rauch (1993)
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A collection of papers on social work assessment for use in schools of social work, inservice and continuing education programs, and social work practice at any level.
Assessment of Children, Youth, and Families in the Child Welfare System
Cohen, Hornsby, & Priester (2005)
In Child Welfare for the 21st Century: A Handbook of Practices, Policies, and Programs
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Explains the process for conducting a comprehensive, family-centered assessment in child welfare.
Beyond Risk: Improving Assessments to Keep People Safer (MS Word - 134 KB)
Kinney, Vaughn, & Strand (2000, rev. ed.)
Encourages child welfare agencies to consult community members in identifying strengths and needs of neighborhoods and families. Based on the assumption that a system of informal and formal supports is necessary for healthy family functioning and child well-being.
Child and Family Assessment in Social Work Practice
Holland (2004)
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Focuses on core assessments and the complexities of assessing need and risk. Information is drawn from qualitative research conducted between 1997 and 2001 into how social workers in the United Kingdom carry out in-depth assessment of children when there are expressed concerns about their welfare.
Early Intervention Institute Monograph 1: Family-Focused Intervention. Project Reach ME: Maine's Birth to Five Early Intervention Outreach Project
Project Reach ME (1991)
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Family-centered philosophies, methods for conducting family-centered assessment, strategies for identifying needs and strengths in families, resources and sources of support for families, and help-giving approaches.
Family Assessment Form
Children's Bureau of Southern California
Offers information on a tool for assessing families, planning services, and evaluating results. Includes a free software trial and documentation on reliability and validity.
Family Assessment Handbook: An Introductory Practice Guide to Family Assessment and Intervention
Thomlison (2002)
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Provides introductory information and describes skills for assessing family functioning, as well as guidelines for clinical assessment and treatment planning.
Family Assessment in Child Welfare Services: Instrument Comparisons (PDF - 251 KB)
Johnson, Stone, Lou, Vu, & Ling (2006)
Describes the concept of family assessment in the child welfare context and discusses 21 promising assessment instruments.
Family-Centered Assessment and Goal Setting
Sandau-Beckler (2001)
In Balancing Family-Centered Services and Child Well-Being: Exploring Issues in Policy, Practice, Theory, and Research
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Asserts assessments for family-centered practice generally should include initial evaluations of family capacities and goals, as well as ongoing, in-depth analyses of family dynamics, problem-solving abilities, and cultural values.
Family Centered Assessment Guidebook: The Art of Assessment (PDF - 301 KB)
National Resource Center for Foster Care and Permanency Planning and National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice (2002)
Identifies questions that should be asked during assessments of family needs and strengths. The items can be used to obtain information about parenting, family fears, resources, support systems, child and parental mental health, and domestic violence experiences.
Family-Centered Assessment in Child Welfare Practice (PDF - 401 KB)
Lutz (2001)
Describes how a family-centered assessment should be conducted and how it meets the requirements of the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997.
Family Centered Child Protective Services: Family Assessment Change Strategy
Holder (1998)
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Introduces a family-centered decision-making model for helping maltreating families.
Family Centered Strengths and Risk Assessment Guidebook (PDF - 335 KB)
Mississippi Division of Family and Children Services (2004)
Developed to help guide caseworkers' initial assessments of families and children in ways that focus on family strengths and successes and employ principles of family-centered practice in planning for services and supports.
The Functional Assessment Process (PDF - 48 KB)
The Child Welfare Policy and Practice Group (2007)
Discusses necessary elements of effective functional assessments for making case decisions on the safety, permanency, and well-being of children in the child welfare system.
Identification and Use of Strengths: A Family System Approach
Ronnau & Poertner (1993)
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Discusses the trend in social work practice of identifying and using strengths as a basis for helping, and describes a method for conducting a strengths assessment of families.
Ours to Keep: A Guide for Building a Community Assessment Strategy for Child Protection
Day, Robison, & Sheikh (1998)
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Describes a process for selecting family-centered assessment tools based on current child welfare principles and the goals of the particular organization. Includes types of assessment tools and how they can be used to assess child and family strengths and needs across child welfare services.
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