Community Partnerships for the Protection of Children Center for the Study of Social Policy Offers research results and lessons learned from efforts to improve outcomes for children, youth, and families by helping child
welfare systems partner more effectively with key stakeholders and community members.
Not exact matches
She was a co-founder of
Partners for Our Children, a nonprofit in Washington State that is focused on making the child
welfare system more effective.
My
partner and I adopted our two children through the child
welfare system, beginning as foster parents.
Family Equality Council has ongoing outreach and social media campaigns targeted at equipping our members and
partners with the tools to advocate for youth in the child
welfare system and LGBTQ prospective foster and adoptive parents.
• Demonstrated ability to build a patient
welfare system that is secure, safe and stable and is based on family centered foundations • Documented success in collaborating with community
partners and agencies to ensure effective use of resources • Skilled at performing assessments of clinical, psychological and demographic information to identify problems and develop correlating plans of care
Family Handbook, Kansas (PDF - 401 KB) Family
Partners of the Family Centered
Systems of Care — Family Advisory Council and Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, Children and Family Services Helps families understand what may happen during their involvement with the child
welfare system, provides information so they can be prepared, and describes available resources and steps to take.
Strategies to Increase Birth Parent Engagement, Partnership, and Leadership in the Child
Welfare System: A Review (PDF - 438 KB) Casey Family Programs (2012) Explores barriers and proactive strategies to engaging birth parents with child
welfare services and referrals for services, developing connections between birth and foster parents, utilizing birth parents as agency
partners, and drawing on birth parent experience in an advisory capacity at the organizational level.
Much of [the] Center for the Study of Social Policy's
system reform work focuses on improving how public child
welfare systems and its
partners address the safety, permanency and well - being needs of the children, youth, and families that they serve.
Effective family engagement occurs when child
welfare practitioners actively collaborate and
partner with family members throughout their involvement with the child
welfare system, recognizing them as the experts on their respective situations and empowering them in the process.
Building and Sustaining Collaborative Community Relationships Capacity Building Center for States (2017) Highlights the importance of effective, ongoing collaboration between child
welfare agencies and community - based
partners to strengthen assessment and decision - making, increase understanding of the family's needs, promote communication and information sharing across
systems, and provide better overall support to children and families.
Best Practice for Father - Child Visits in the Child
Welfare System (PDF - 1,147 KB) National Family Preservation Network (2012) Outlines guidelines for caseworkers partnering with fathers with children involved in the child welfare system in order to make visitation meaningful and produ
System (PDF - 1,147 KB) National Family Preservation Network (2012) Outlines guidelines for caseworkers
partnering with fathers with children involved in the child
welfare system in order to make visitation meaningful and produ
system in order to make visitation meaningful and productive.
The Child and Family Practice Model Packet (PDF - 1,510 KB) Child & Family Policy Institute of California (2016) Describes a model being used in California that was developed as part of the Federal Permanency Innovations Initiative, which has formed pathways for
partnering with the community in developing and supporting a culturally responsive approach to
systems - level change in child
welfare.
The group, comprised of representatives from Head Start, Early Childhood Comprehensive
Systems, Medicaid, education, behavioral health, child
welfare, and mental health providers, successfully organized statewide conferences and trainings to promote infant mental health, and worked locally with Part C programs and other
partners to develop plans to strengthen their work in this area.
In addition, the education and child
welfare systems should
partner with each other to improve outcomes specifically for foster and adopted children and youth, to ensure they have greater school continuity, appropriate special education assessments and assignments, educational achievement, and academic success.
Specifically, her areas of expertise include fatal child maltreatment, the child
welfare system,
partner violence and help - seeking, corporal punishment, and divorced families.
What if the child
welfare system is a supportive
partner in creating a plan for their child?
Following his work at OSLC, he worked for five years as a Research Professor and Director of Research at
Partners for Our Children in the School of Social Work at the University of Washington, where he was engaged in a variety of projects focused on children and families involved in the child
welfare system, including the development and testing of the STRIVE program.