Sentences with phrase «welfare systems involve»

Most recently, she led an effort to implement linked evidence - based practices, including KEEP and PMT, in the New York City child welfare system involving over 300 case workers and supervisors serving over 2,000 children and families (CSNYC).

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The test, which is to involve 4,000 randomly selected Ontarians, would see the automatic top - up replace Disability and Ontario Works (welfare) payments for those now in the system.

One is the development of the government - backed systems of welfare that involve the transfer of enormous resources between generations.

This section addresses key elements of family - centered practice and provides overarching strategies for family - centered casework practice across child welfare service systems that focus on strengths, engage families and involve them in decision - making, advocate for improving families» conditions, and engage communities to support families.

Most home visiting programs are voluntary, and states and communities encourage participation by families with risk for maltreatment (for example, families where parents have low levels of education, live in poverty, single - parent households, and parents who themselves were involved in the child welfare system).

Often, DSS will work with a family involved in the child welfare or juvenile justice systems to utilize services offered at these facilities.

They found that living in neighborhoods with strong social cohesion and trust — where neighbors are willing to help each other and generally get along — protects families against getting involved in the child welfare system.

By comparison, Jennifer Dworkin's Love and Diane — an intimate, unruly portrait of a mother / daughter relationship and of three generations of a black Brooklyn family struggling with drug addiction; HIV; poverty; a byzantine, contradictory, often inane welfare system; and the self - destructive impulses that result from anger, shame, and abandonment — seems even more admirable and involving than it did in its New York Film Festival screening last year.

Stress is a «defining feature» for those involved in child welfare systems.

► Improved educational programs, opportunities, and outcomes for students from low - income families, students of color, students with disabilities, English Language Learners, students living in temporary housing, LGBTQ students, and students involved in the child welfare or the juvenile or criminal justice systems.

Young people involved in the child welfare and / or juvenile justice systems often face significant challenges as they transition to college and career.

This resource includes legislation and grants specifically focused on supporting secondary, postsecondary, and workforce success among youth involved in the juvenile justice and / or child welfare system.

Throughout her career, Angela has been involved with virtually every aspect of the animal welfare system.

While it involved role - playing it gave participants a glimpse into the actual experience in the social welfare system of human beings struggling to make ends meet for their families.

Each of the four MLC clinics provide free legal services to the most vulnerable populations — including people with disabilities and chronic illness, members of the LGBTQ community, undocumented immigrants and refugees, children and youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems, and people involved with the criminal justice system.

I know that decisions involving children involved in the child welfare system get this treatment.

He says it «cuts a wide swath of stuff» involving family, criminal, and human rights law — ranging from child - welfare cases to sentencing principles that require courts to take into account the over-representation of aboriginals in the criminal justice system.

This section contains State and local examples of effective practices to serve families affected by substance use disorders and who are involved in the child welfare system.

Presents recommendations for meeting the substance abuse and mental health treatment needs of families involved in the child welfare system.

Family support and preservation services may be provided to different types of families involved with the child welfare system — birth or biological families, kinship families, foster families, and adoptive families — to enhance family functioning and ensure child safety.

Consequently, child welfare and child support agencies have placed new emphasis on identifying, locating, and involving nonresident fathers of children served by the child welfare system.

A major issue in this area is the capacity of staff to work with the multitude of ethnic and cultural groups that currently characterize the American populace (see U.S. Census Bureau, 2000), and thus are involved in the child welfare system.

Latino Families and the Public Child Welfare System: Examining the Role of Social Support Networks Ayón Children and Youth Services Review, 33 (10), 2011 View Abstract Examines Latino families» social networks and the role they play when a family is involved with the public child welfare sSystem: Examining the Role of Social Support Networks Ayón Children and Youth Services Review, 33 (10), 2011 View Abstract Examines Latino families» social networks and the role they play when a family is involved with the public child welfare systemsystem.

wraparound services An arrangement of individualized, coordinated, family - driven care to meet complex needs of children and families who are involved with several child - and family - serving systems (such as mental health, child welfare, juvenile justice, and special education).

Strategies to Increase Birth Parent Engagement, Partnership, and Leadership in the Child Welfare System: A Review (PDF - 438 KB) Corwin (2012) Casey Family Programs Reviews the literature on effective approaches to involving birth parents in the child welfare system at all lSystem: A Review (PDF - 438 KB) Corwin (2012) Casey Family Programs Reviews the literature on effective approaches to involving birth parents in the child welfare system at all lsystem at all levels.

In fiscal year 2011, the Children's Bureau awarded 10 grants to promote collaboration between child welfare and education systems in order to increase educational stability for children ages 10 to 17 and who were involved with child welfare.

An agency - wide focus on permanency for all child welfare involved families has the residual impact of fostering permanency for minority families, and therefore reducing their numbers in the child welfare system.

Community - based Resources: Keystone to the System of Care Examines the elements of a successful community - based approach to serving children and families involved with the child welfare sSystem of Care Examines the elements of a successful community - based approach to serving children and families involved with the child welfare systemsystem.

Family Navigator Concept Paper, Kansas (PDF - 22 KB) Summarizes the barriers to timely and helpful support to families newly involved with the child welfare system and addresses the benefits of the family navigator program for the family and the child welfare agency.

An Individualized, Strengths - Based Approach in Public Child Welfare Driven Systems of Care Discusses the importance of establishing policies and practices that promote and facilitate an individualized, strengths - based approach when working with children and families involved with child welfare.

Penelope is the Executive Director of a community - based organization serving families who are in the child welfare system as well as youth who are gang involved.

If anything, the move towards a family preservation philosophy had a detrimental effect on children and families involved with the child welfare system.

Evidence - based methods are rapidly emerging from a development phase that has primarily involved local and highly controlled studies into more national implementation and greater engagement with the child welfare system.

But within the foster care and child welfare systems, a child or youth with special needs has a factor or condition (uniquely defined by each state) that may involve any of the following:

In recent years, the responsible fatherhood field has expanded beyond its roots in employment and parenting services for low - income fathers to recognize the diverse needs of a wide array of fathers.1 Programs now include elements such as healthy marriage and co-parenting skills training, general fatherhood competency for all income levels, support for fathers involved with the child welfare and criminal justice systems, a focus on children's education and literacy, awareness of the needs of fathers who have children with special needs, and attention to issues of domestic violence.

States also work with families involved in their child welfare systems, providing parent education and support services.

recognize that the problems affecting Aboriginal juveniles are so widespread and have such potentially disastrous repercussions for the future that there is an urgent need for governments and Aboriginal organizations to negotiate together to devise strategies designed to reduce the rate at which Aboriginal juveniles are involved in the welfare and criminal justice systems, and, in particular, to reduce the rate at which Aboriginal juveniles are separated from their families or communities, whether by being declared to be in need of care, detained, imprisoned or otherwise.

Featuring the Parent Partner Program in Contra Costa, CA, where parents who had been involved in the child welfare system now serve as mentors and resource guides to other parents currently receiving child welfare services.

Virginia Child Protection Newsletter, 92, 2011 Emphasizes the importance of using a family engagement approach when working with families involved in the child welfare system and identifies key family support principles.

Child welfare cases involving immigration issues are considered to be some of the most time consuming and challenging because many social workers are unfamiliar with immigration issues and child welfare systems are not typically equipped to address them.

Effective family empowerment is the act of engaging, involving, and lifting up the voice of families throughout the child welfare continuum — at the practice and system level.

Consider opportunities to contract with child welfare agencies to provide direct services for fathers with children involved with the child welfare system.

Most home visiting programs are voluntary, and states and communities encourage participation by families with risk for maltreatment (for example, families where parents have low levels of education, live in poverty, single - parent households, and parents who themselves were involved in the child welfare system).

FFC staff learned more about the child welfare system and how to help fathers with children involved with the system.

When children or parents with mental health service needs are involved with the child welfare system, a coordination of efforts is more likely to result in positive outcomes than if each system focuses independently on its own issue - related services.

FFC now routinely asks all program participants if they have children involved with the child welfare system.

Recent studies highlight the potential benefits of father involvement for the safety and well - being of children involved with the child welfare system.

DBHS Practice Protocol: The Unique Behavioral Health Service Needs of Children, Youth and Families Involved With CPS (PDF - 107 KB) Arizona Department of Health Services, Division of Behavioral Health Services (2008) Outlines clinical considerations for ensuring effective responses to the trauma, loss, and anxiety experienced by children involved with the child welfare system, including cross-training of child and familInvolved With CPS (PDF - 107 KB) Arizona Department of Health Services, Division of Behavioral Health Services (2008) Outlines clinical considerations for ensuring effective responses to the trauma, loss, and anxiety experienced by children involved with the child welfare system, including cross-training of child and familinvolved with the child welfare system, including cross-training of child and family teams.

CWOP hosts the Parent Advocate Network, which is run by CWOP - trained parent advocates (parents who have navigated the child welfare system successfully), and offers self - help support groups to parents involved in the child welfare system.

Juvenile justice and child welfare agencies serve youth who are involved with both systems better when they work together toward positive outcomes.