An Office of Family Assistance funded resource, the National Resource Center for Healthy Marriage and Families offers tools, resources and training to integrate healthy marriage education into
existing social service systems.
A Federally funded resource, the Resource Center offers a variety of tools and resources designed to educate interested stakeholders in the benefits of integrating healthy marriage education into
existing social service systems.
Not exact matches
Although quality improvements in
existing programs and
system - building efforts to coordinate
services and enhance access are clearly important, they are unlikely to be enough to produce breakthrough impacts for children who face the cumulative burdens of low family income, limited parent education, and
social exclusion.
The universal pre-K movement isn't just about offering another
social service: Pre-K advocates are actually building a whole new
system of public education, and that has implications for the
existing K - 12 public education
system.
While I suspect there will always be a need for authoritarian and perhaps adversarial court processes to address truly intractable individuals and problems of genuine urgency, I worry that a reconceptualization of the
system may call for more than triage processes and the co-locatation of
social services, both of which are reconfigurations of
existing services, but may demand a fundamental reconsideration of our basic assumptions and a critically examination of alternatives such as inquisitorial processes, abridged trial procedures, non-adversarial judging techniques, the embedding of mental health professionals in decision - making processes and so forth.
Yet, in broad terms, these
social workers can work in a plethora of areas identifying those in need of additional assistance, diagnosing mental health problems that may
exist, and possibly finding supportive
services that can be utilized to promote recovery of individuals or whole family
systems.
expanding the capacity of ACCHOs and other
services as required to establish and / or build on
existing interdisciplinary mental health and
social and emotional wellbeing teams that can work effectively with or coordinate health care for people at risk of imprisonment while in the community and work to divert them from potential contact with the criminal justice
system;
This program involves the family or other support
systems in the individual's treatment: The program is for parents and is offered within the context of
existing programs and
services provided by a variety of community agencies and organizations (Head start centers, community health centers, schools, clinics, prisons, shelters, places of worship,
social service agencies, etc.) that have other initiatives for families.
Vermonts Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program was embedded in CIS, ensuring MIECHV
services are integrated into the
existing prenatal and early childhood health and
social support
system.
Strategies: Promote respect fro traditional family values and
systems of authority through formal recognition; support and resource forums, camps and activities that address
social wellbeing for youth, men and women; identify demographic needs at the regional and local level, establish targets and performance standards and revisit State based policies; monitor effectiveness of parenting programs; ensure that information about
existing government assistance programs and
services is made available to all communities, organisations and individuals.