{"title":"The development of child protection supervisors in Northern British Columbia.","authors":"Karen Blackman, Glen Schmidt","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This research involved three different groups of employees in a provincial government organization responsible for the delivery of child welfare services throughout northern British Columbia. The research sought to understand the skills that are most important to supervision, how the skills can be developed, and the barriers that might impede this development.</p>","PeriodicalId":9796,"journal":{"name":"Child Welfare","volume":"92 5","pages":"87-105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32420166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Crystal Collins-Camargo, Mary I Armstrong, Bowen McBeath, Emmeline Chuang
{"title":"Promoting cross-sector partnerships in child welfare: qualitative results from a five-state strategic planning process.","authors":"Crystal Collins-Camargo, Mary I Armstrong, Bowen McBeath, Emmeline Chuang","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Little is known about effective strategic planning for public and private child welfare agencies working together to serve families. During a professionally facilitated, strategic planning event, public and private child welfare administrators from five states explored partnership challenges and strengths with a goal of improving collaborative interactions in order to improve outcomes for children and families. Summarizing thematic results of session notes from the planning event, this article describes effective strategies for facilitation of such processes as well as factors that challenge or promote group processes. Implications for conducting strategic planning in jurisdictions seeking to improve public/private partnerships are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":9796,"journal":{"name":"Child Welfare","volume":"92 1","pages":"33-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31690495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elizabeth J Greeno, Kantahyanee Murray, Berenice Rushovich
{"title":"Using multi-informed fidelity data to determine the impact of a neutral child welfare facilitator for permanency decision teams.","authors":"Elizabeth J Greeno, Kantahyanee Murray, Berenice Rushovich","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Few studies have included fidelity monitoring and critical approaches to the evaluation of family decision meetings. The current study uses a mixed-methods approach to examine the implementation and fidelity adherence of one state's family decision meeting model. Main findings indicate that while individuals facilitating the meetings perceive their fidelity to the model is strong, the observation data suggest that model adherence is inconsistent among those facilitating the meetings. Practice implications are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":9796,"journal":{"name":"Child Welfare","volume":"92 6","pages":"111-29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33351239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"All in the family: variations in the use of family meetings in child welfare.","authors":"Heather Allan, Erin Maher","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The current state of family meeting practice within and across child welfare jurisdictions in the United States is widespread and varies greatly, presenting challenges for rigorous research and evaluation. Three illustrative jurisdiction-level case studies are provided, which demonstrate not only commonalities and differences in practice across agencies but the underlying reasons for this variation. The associated challenges for evaluation of this practice are also discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":9796,"journal":{"name":"Child Welfare","volume":"92 6","pages":"97-110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33351235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"The environment as a cause of disease in children\": Josef Friedjung's transnational influence on modern child welfare theory.","authors":"Elizabeth Ann Danto","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Josef K. Friedjung's Advanced Pediatrics--A Companion to Traditional Textbooks (Erlebte Kinderheilkunde--eine Ergänzung er gebräuchlichen Lehrbucher), published in 1919 in Vienna, has cast a long but nearly-vanished shadow over modern child welfare theory. The originality of his focus on \"the whole child\" was in some ways a commentary on Sigmund Freud, but its overtly progressive political character gave Friedjung's argument visible applicability within the field of urban social welfare. As a pediatrician and an ardent cosmopolitan, Friedjung was willing to consider conflicting values between traditional family systems and the state. Had the Nazis not forced him into exile in Palestine, where he died in 1946, Friedjung's pioneering oeuvre would have joined our child welfare narrative long ago. Fortunately today archival evidence on which this study draws, fragmented as it is in both German and English, does confirm that the first and second generation psychoanalysts, Friedjung among them, built a mental health movement around a social justice core closely allied to the cultural context of central Europe from 1918 to 1933. In many ways, child welfare as we know it emerged as a practical implementation of that ideology.</p>","PeriodicalId":9796,"journal":{"name":"Child Welfare","volume":"92 1","pages":"159-79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31690429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Paul DiLorenzo, Catherine Roller White, Alex Morales, Andrea Paul, Suna Shaw
{"title":"Innovative cross-system and community approaches for the prevention of child maltreatment.","authors":"Paul DiLorenzo, Catherine Roller White, Alex Morales, Andrea Paul, Suna Shaw","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Because of the complexity and depth of problems facing children and families today, child protection can be best accomplished through a community effort--not simply through the efforts of the traditional child welfare system and other child- and family-serving agencies. Community-based initiatives supporting families and individuals are promising mechanisms through which to efficiently reach a wide range of community members consistent with a public health model. This conceptual paper describes the principles of community-based approaches for the prevention of child maltreatment and briefly describes four initiatives that are providing comprehensive, community-based prevention.</p>","PeriodicalId":9796,"journal":{"name":"Child Welfare","volume":"92 2","pages":"161-78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31839678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Parent representation model in child safety conferences.","authors":"Marina Lalayants","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Child welfare-involved parents are often isolated and lack support and skills to navigate complex systems. Programs using a parent representation service model in child protection can offer an exceptional and critical form of support and empowerment to birthparents, promote parental engagement and cooperation, and teach system navigation skills. While there is a notable emphasis on an overall family-centered and strength-based approach in child welfare, much progress is still needed in giving voice to parents, empowering them, including them in decisionmaking about the case, and seeking their cooperation. Funding should be directed to recruiting more parent representatives to assist birthparents in their communities as well to educating and training child protective services workers by transferring values and strategies implemented by parent representatives. Although additional research is certainly necessary, it appears that programs such as the Child Welfare Organizing Project in New York City may be an important step toward building partnerships with families impacted by the child welfare system in promoting child safety, well-being, and permanency.</p>","PeriodicalId":9796,"journal":{"name":"Child Welfare","volume":"92 5","pages":"107-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32420167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sarah Kaye, Terry V Shaw, Diane DePanfilis, Karen Rice
{"title":"Estimating staffing needs for in-home child welfare services with a weighted caseload formula.","authors":"Sarah Kaye, Terry V Shaw, Diane DePanfilis, Karen Rice","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>State child welfare risk and safety assessment data were analyzed to determine three levels of in-home service that correspond to the Child Welfare League of America's (CWLA) national caseload standards and to evaluate the number of staff needed to provide services at each level. The analysis revealed that 50% additional case-carrying in-home services staff were needed to provide appropriate risk- and safety-based services to children in their own homes. Findings from this study were used by the state child welfare services agency to allocate vacant worker positions to local jurisdictions.</p>","PeriodicalId":9796,"journal":{"name":"Child Welfare","volume":"91 2","pages":"61-76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31198471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lyscha A Marcynyszyn, Pete Small Bear, Erin Geary, Russ Conti, Peter J Pecora, Priscilla A Day, Stephen T Wilson
{"title":"Family Group Decision Making (FGDM) with Lakota families in two tribal communities: tools to facilitate FGDM implementation and evaluation.","authors":"Lyscha A Marcynyszyn, Pete Small Bear, Erin Geary, Russ Conti, Peter J Pecora, Priscilla A Day, Stephen T Wilson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article describes an adapted Family Group Decision Making (FGDM) practice model for Native American communities, the FGDM family and community engagement process, and FGDM evaluation tools as one example for other native communities. Challenges and successes associated with the implementation and evaluation of these meetings are also described in the context of key historical and cultural factors, such as intergenerational grief and trauma, as well as past misuse of data in native communities.</p>","PeriodicalId":9796,"journal":{"name":"Child Welfare","volume":"91 3","pages":"113-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31360025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}