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Working With Community Resources
Family-centered practitioners view all family members, including maternal and paternal relatives, fictive kin, and informal helpers, as important resources and sources of support for the family. They are skilled in engaging informal and formal community resources by involving them, as appropriate, in family assessment and case planning and in providing ongoing support to families before, during, and after services are ended by the formal child welfare agency and other community agencies.
Community Family Support Meetings: Connecting Families, Public Child Welfare, and Community Resources
Kemp, Allen-Eckard, Ackroyd, Becker, & Burke (2005)
In Child Welfare for the Twenty-First Century: A Handbook of Practices, Policies, and Programs
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Explores the use of the Community Family Support Meeting (CFSM) in child welfare practice. The CFSM uses participatory family decision-making methods to connect families with informal community resources and community-based social service professionals at times of crisis and transition.
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.
Key Characteristics and Features of Community-Based Family Support Programs
Dunst (1995)
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Provides an overview of family support principles and the paradigms, practices, and program dimensions of the philosophy.
Family-centered practice: Family-centered services
Preventing child abuse & neglect: Developing & sustaining prevention programs
Preventing child abuse & neglect: Public awareness & creating supportive communities
Management & supervision: Child welfare practice improvement - Interagency and cross system collaboration