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Assessing Needs and Strengths-Parents and Caregivers
Comprehensive family assessment includes specific attention to the strengths, needs, and capacities of parents and caregivers, including relative caregivers. Assessment strategies and tools for parents and caregivers gather information to help determine the need for intervention to prevent maltreatment, strengthen family functioning, and increase family stability. Screening and more comprehensive assessments are conducted to identify safety concerns, risks, strengths, and resources and help to determine the best possible response to the child, parent, and family, including appropriate services and/or referral for further assessment and evaluation.
- Parenting skills and competencies
- Family connections and resources
- Family functioning
- Parental mental health
- Parental substance abuse
- Domestic violence
Protective Factors Survey
FRIENDS National Resource Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention (2008)
Offers a self-administered survey for use with caregivers receiving child maltreatment prevention services, measuring protective factors in five areas: family functioning/resiliency, social support, concrete support, nurturing and attachment, and knowledge of parenting/child development. The website includes the tool and a user manual.
Decision-Making Guidelines
American Humane Association (2003)
Presents guidelines for case plan development and child welfare service delivery, including a checklist of factors affecting abused and neglected children and alternatives for services and supports that may be provided to the family.