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Johnson, Michelle A., Susan Stone, Christine Lou, Catherine M. Vu, Jennifer Ling, Paola Mizrahi, and Michael J. Austin. "Family Assessment in Child Welfare Services." Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work 5, no. 1-2 (January 2008): 57–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j394v05n01_04.

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Wells, Kathleen, and Dale Whittington. "Child and Family Functioning after Intensive Family Preservation Services." Social Service Review 67, no. 1 (March 1993): 55–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/603965.

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Wise, Sarah. "The child in family services: expanding child abuse prevention." Australian Social Work 56, no. 3 (September 2003): 183–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.0312-407x.2003.00081.x.

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Cole, Elizabeth S. "Becoming Family Centered: Child Welfare's Challenge." Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services 76, no. 3 (March 1995): 163–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/104438949507600304.

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The author discusses current challenges to increasing family-centered practice within child welfare agencies. The article focuses on two issues: (1) child welfare's collaboration with early-intervention and family-support services and (2) maintaining family-preservation services despite growing criticism of such services.

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Unrau, Yvonne A. "Predicting Use of Child Welfare Services after Intensive Family Preservation Services." Research on Social Work Practice 7, no. 2 (April 1997): 202–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/104973159700700204.

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This study explored whether selected client and service characteristics could help predict families' use of other child welfare services after receiving intensive family presentation services (IFPS). Of 192 families, over three quarters did not use out-of-home child placement services for up to 6 months after receiving IFPS. Additionally, well over half of the families ended all service agreements with child welfare in the same period Polytomous logistic regression was used to develop prediction models. The findings of this study have implications for the development and service delivery of IFPS programs. Specifically, the role of IFPS needs to be re conceptualized to more accurately reflect its place on the child welfare services continuum.

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Cash, Scottye J., and Marianne Berry. "Family Characteristics and Child Welfare Services: Does the Assessment Drive Service Provision?" Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services 83, no. 5 (October 2002): 499–507. http://dx.doi.org/10.1606/1044-3894.49.

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A process study was performed on a program that was designed to prevent ineffective foster placement, to determine the match between family problems identified during assessment and subsequent services provided to the family. The individualization and “fit” of services to specific family needs is the foundation of assessment practice, but little research has documented the extent to which fit occurs. This study of 115 families and their services found that fit is best when concrete, rather than clinical, services are provided, but that parenting issues continue to drive the provision of all services.

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Mendoza, Natasha. "Family Structure, Substance Use, and Child Protective Services Involvement: Exploring Child Outcomes and Services." Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions 13, no. 1 (January 2013): 32–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1533256x.2012.756793.

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Rodrigo, María José, Ana Delia Correa, María Luisa Máiquez, Juan Carlos Martín, and Guacimara Rodríguez. "Family Preservation Services on the Canary Islands." European Psychologist 11, no. 1 (January 2006): 57–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040.11.1.57.

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This article describes the results of a parenting program “Apoyo Personal y Familiar,” (APF; Personal and Family Support program) targeted at parents of families at high psychosocial risk. APF aims at preventing unnecessary placement of children from vulnerable families into foster-care by increasing parental competence in order to improve their autonomous functioning. The program is implemented through group meetings in community centers. The method involves exposing the parents to parental views and practices in specific child-rearing episodes and encouraging them to reflect on their own views and the consequences on child development. In the Intervention group 144 mothers completed the pretest and posttest measures and 155 mothers were in a waiting-list comparison group. Self-report measures on parental implicit theories, child-rearing practices, and personal agency were used to perform the evaluation. Group discourse and the monitor's behavior observed during the sessions were used as predictors of the program's efficacy. Compared to control mothers, program mothers endorsed less simple views on child development, reported positive changes in their child-rearing practices, and had more confidence in their personal resources and a more accurate view of their parental role. Group effect sizes on the outcome measures were predicted by the type of group discourse and the type of group management observed during the sessions. The use of a perspectivist discourse was positive for promoting complex ideas and actions, whereas a self-centered discourse was positive for improving personal agency and for reporting less use of permissive practices. The role of the monitor was particularly relevant for reinforcing the mothers' sense of confidence in their own resources and for facilitating changes in child-rearing tactics.

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James, Alex, Jeanette McLeod, Shaun Hendy, Kip Marks, Delia Rusu, Syen Nik, and Michael J. Plank. "Using family network data in child protection services." PLOS ONE 14, no. 10 (October 29, 2019): e0224554. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224554.

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Clément, Marie-Ève, Annie Bérubé, Mélissa Goulet, and Sonia Hélie. "Family Profiles in Child Neglect Cases Substantiated by Child Protection Services." Child Indicators Research 13, no. 2 (July 29, 2019): 433–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12187-019-09665-z.

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Callister, Gill. "Family Violence and Child Protection." Children Australia 27, no. 4 (2002): 14–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200005289.

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Family violence is a serious and widespread issue in our community. Violence between adults within the same family is a risk factor encountered by child protection workers at all points of child protection intervention. Accurately measuring the extent of family violence within the general community and within families notified to child protection is difficult, but we do know that it is an increasing aspect of the workload of Child Protection workers. The Department of Human Services Child Protection program tracks the number and types of characteristics for parents involved with Child Protection according to six categories. These categories are: psychiatric disability, intellectual disability, physical disability, family violence, alcohol abuse and substance abuse. For substantiated cases of child abuse and neglect the percentage of families with family violence noted as a parental characteristic increased from 38 per cent in 1996-97 to 52 per cent in 2000-01 (Department of Human Services 2002). The same data also indicates that for parents for whom family violence was the major parental characteristic recorded over the past five-year period, the co-occurrence of psychiatric disability increased by more than 50 per cent, alcohol abuse increased by 20 per cent, and substance abuse increased by 52 per cent.

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Ainsworth, Frank. "Family Preservation Services: A cautionary note." Children Australia 18, no. 2 (1993): 10–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200006271.

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The present interest in US style family preservation services is the focus of this article. The article sounds a cautionary note in relation to the development of these services in Australia. It does this by drawing attention to a recent influential evaluation of these services and to the differences between social work and child welfare practices in America and Australia.

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De Silva, J. K. Malini, and K. P. Wickramasuriya. "Maternal and child health and family planning services services in Sri Lanka." Journal of the College of Community Physicians of Sri Lanka 5, no. 1 (December 30, 2001): 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.4038/jccpsl.v5i1.8509.

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Cash, Scottye J., and Marianne Berry. "The Impact of Family Preservation Services on Child and Family Well-Being." Journal of Social Service Research 29, no. 3 (July 28, 2003): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j079v29n03_01.

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Clout, Peter, Sue Clout, Jenny Apps, and Jacinta Cook. "The Family Support Innovation Projects in Victoria: A progress report from Ballarat Family Services." Children Australia 31, no. 4 (2006): 29–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200011329.

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Ballarat Family Services is the service that has evolved in Ballarat, Victoria as a result of a Department of Human Services initiative, the Family Support Innovation Projects. More than two years after the commencement of the program, Ballarat Family Services is leading a major re-orientation of the service system for families who have borderline involvement with the statutory Child Protection system. This re-orientation involves all parts of the service system, including the nature of the collaborative relationships between non-government agencies and the statutory Child Protection Agency. It has also led to Ballarat Family Services revisiting the nature and purpose of the practice of family support work. This paper will give an overview of the development of Ballarat Family Services and go on to outline the lessons learned in practice, placing them in the context of current theory and research.

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Goulet, Mélissa, Sonia Hélie, and Marie-Ève Clément. "Child and family needs profiles among cases substantiated by child protection services." Child Abuse & Neglect 81 (July 2018): 366–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2018.05.016.

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Bloom, Kathleen, and Jane A. Tam. "Walk-in Services for Child and Family Mental Health." Journal of Systemic Therapies 34, no. 1 (March 2015): 61–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/jsyt.2015.34.1.61.

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Richmond, Diana S. "Book Review: Family Perspectives in Child and Youth Services." Review & Expositor 88, no. 4 (December 1991): 498–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/003463739108800463.

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Oberklaid, Frank. "Community-based child and family services—many questions remain." Acta Paediatrica 94, no. 3 (March 1, 2005): 265–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08035250510028759.

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OBERKLAID, Frank. "Community-based child and family services-many questions remain." Acta Paediatrica 94, no. 3 (March 2005): 265–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1651-2227.2005.tb03067.x.

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Mitchell, Gaye. "Children with disabilities in child and family welfare services." Children Australia 39, no. 2 (May 21, 2014): 107–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cha.2014.8.

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There is a lack of research data about children with disabilities across the range of child and family welfare services. The study reported in this paper explored the extent and nature of disabilities in children in a variety of programmes within OzChild, an Australian welfare agency. Caseworkers and teachers working with children at the beginning of 2012 considered all children receiving services from their programmes. Of these 475 children, 200 were identified as having a disability. This article presents data on these 200 children and recommendations for improving outcomes for them. A major finding was that disability added further layers of complexity to already complex child–carer/family situations presenting to under-resourced practitioners and programmes. There was an extensive variety of disabilities across all programme areas, and varying proportions across programmes ranging from 29 per cent in kinship care and family services to 44 per cent of children in foster care. Data were suggestive of problems with some diagnoses, and the need for further research in these areas. The need to address questions of causation of environmentally based disability through preventative programmes, and a more targeted approach to families with multiple and complex needs were indicated. Lack of respite care was jeopardising some placements of children with severe disability. Lack of educational achievement and participation in social, cultural and recreational activities were identified, as were inequities in funding across different programme areas – all of which resulted in some children with disabilities continuing to be substantially disadvantaged. These data led to the generation of recommendations for changes to practice, programme and policy to improve outcomes for children.

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Cohen, Robert. "Child and family services in an era of reform." Journal of Child and Family Studies 1, no. 2 (June 1992): 125–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf01321280.

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Ainsworth, Frank, and John Berger. "Family Inclusive Child Protection Practice: The History of the Family Inclusion Network and Beyond." Children Australia 39, no. 2 (May 21, 2014): 60–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cha.2014.1.

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This article records briefly the history of the Family Inclusion Network as an organisation that promotes family inclusive child protection practice. Since its inception in Queensland in 2006, Family Inclusion Network organisations have been formed elsewhere and now exist in Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales. In 2010, developments at a national level saw the formation of the Family Inclusion Network Australia. Most organisations are incorporated and some have achieved charitable status. Each organisation endorses a common set of aims and objectives. There are, however, differences in terms of whether state or territory organisations accept government funding or not, are staffed by professionals or rely entirely on volunteer personnel, and have a capacity or otherwise to provide direct casework services to parents. Some state organisations focus on information and advice services, and legislative and policy reform efforts. All have telephone advice lines and a webpage presence. This article also focuses on a code of ethics for child protection practice and on the contribution parents can make to child protection services, and their rights to do so.

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Vimpani, Graham. "Refashioning child and family health services in response to family, social and political change." Australian Health Review 27, no. 2 (2004): 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah042720013.

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Professor Graham Vimpani is head of the Discipline of Paediatrics & Child Health, University of Newcastle.One hundred years ago maternal and child health services emerged as a community response in Australia, and most other industrialised countries, to concerns about the high rates of infant and early childhood mortality from infectious disease and poor nutrition. Major family and social changes over the past 30 years have impacted in new ways on children's health and wellbeing leading to a profound rethink about the kinds of services that are needed. At the same time, second thoughts have emerged about the role of government in service provision, driven by neoliberal and rational economic philosophies as outlined in the paper in this issue by Keleher and Reiger (2004). Together, these issues have challenged the very foundations on which the services were traditionally based.

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Oltedal, Siv, Ingunn Studsrød, Rasa Naujanienė, and Carolina Muñoz Guzmán. "Social workers understanding of extended families position in child welfare in Lithuania, Chile and Norway." Journal of Comparative Social Work 15, no. 1 (September 17, 2020): 84–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.31265/jcsw.v15i1.285.

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Child welfare services around the world deal with families and family complexities. The study from Chile, Lithuania and Norway explores how social workers define family and more specific the position of extended families within child welfare and thus indicate contextual differences and similarities. In the data collection, five focus groups were included: one Lithuanian (eight participants), two Chilean (with two and two participants) and two Norwegian groups (with seven and eight participants). The analysis reveals significant and thematic differences and similarities between the countries related to the fluid and varied concept of family. The results also show variations across contexts in which families that are targeted by the services, the involvement of children and nuclear and extended family members. A dilemma between children’s need to keep family bonds and the states responsibility to protect children, can be exemplified with the position of the extended family. We can identity a difference between Norway, with comprehensive state involvement that can be framed as they are dealing with a public family, and both Chile and Lithuania, which put more of an emphasis on problem-solving within families, and thus look at the family as more of a private sphere.

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Triseliotis, John. "Family Wanted. Adoption Services." Child and Adolescent Mental Health 11, no. 3 (September 2006): 173. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-3588.2006.00406_1.x.

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Woodruff, Jane, and Jon O'Brien. "Children's and Family Services Working Together." Australasian Journal of Early Childhood 30, no. 1 (March 2005): 49–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/183693910503000109.

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This paper is based on keynote addresses by Jane Woodruff, CEO, UnitingCare Burnside to the National Association of Community Based Children's Services, University of Wollongong, April 2004; and to the Mobile Children's Service Association Conference, Dubbo, August 2003. It offers the perspective of one NSW child and family welfare agency on reasons for children's and family services to work more closely together. These include a shared concern for the early years; the need to address common risk and protective factors; and research which suggests combining approaches will achieve better results for children and families. Drawing from current practice and policy initiatives, the paper then suggests three main areas where children's and family services can pursue greater cooperation.

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hammad, Adnan. "Design of Family and Child Welfare Policy in Indonesia." E3S Web of Conferences 73 (2018): 09006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20187309006.

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Family is the basis of public welfare. Family welfare determine the children development. Indonesia government ensure family and child welfare of their citizen by applying Child Rights Convention and strengthen some policies. Indonesia government, through Ministry of Social, also arranged PKSA/ Children Welfare Program. This program classify vulnerable child into five cluster, and reach them by three ways: integrated cash aid, social workers, and access to social services. This program targeted no less than 4.3 million children in all region. Though this program were succesfully implemented, but still needed some improvement, such as involvement of local government, recruitment of social workers, and more establishment of LKSA with good facilities and services. PKSA should also be financially sustainable that can reach more children from many families with its whole services.

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Dorothy, Jake. "Experiences of child & adolescent mental health services: A Service-user perspective." Clinical Psychology Forum 1, no. 227 (November 2011): 14–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.53841/bpscpf.2011.1.227.14.

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This text was initially written as guidance for trainee clinical psychologists taking an introductory Children and Families module. Its aim was to highlight commonly overlooked factors which may result in having a strong impact upon the service-user’s overall experience of mental health services, contributing to both treatment outcomes, and reputation of child and family services on a wider scale.

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Sayed, Samiha Hamdi, Wafaa Taha Ibrahim Elgzar, and Heba Abdel-Fatah Ibrahim. "Quality of Family Planning Services in Maternal and Child Health Care Centers in Damanhour City." International Journal of Studies in Nursing 3, no. 2 (January 3, 2018): 88. http://dx.doi.org/10.20849/ijsn.v3i2.393.

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Background: Quality of family planning services is an ever-increasing worldwide issue which is basically deserted in the developing nations. Provision of high quality family planning services that satisfy clients’ needs can ensure continued services utilization and increase contraceptive prevalence rate, lowered fertility rate, and improved women and children’s health.Aim: this study intended to assess the quality of family planning services in maternal and child health care centers in Damanhour city.Design: this was a descriptive study that utilized Dounabedian model to assess quality of family planning services structure and process and clients’ satisfaction was used as an outcome indicator.Setting: the three available maternal and child health centers in Damanhour city.Participants: all health care providers and a convenience sample of 300 non pregnant women who utilized the family planning clinics at the selected maternal and child health centers.Tools of data collection: three tools were utilized; basic data structured interview schedule for clients and health care providers, structural quality is assessed through facility audit while the process of family planning services provision was measured by using an observational checklist. After the observation of the family planning care process, an exit interview was done with the clients to measure their satisfaction with the provided family planning services.Results: The study findings revealed that none of the studied family planning clinics had high total quality of care level (structure & process) where 66.7% of them had low level of the total quality of care. However, 74.3% of the studied family planning clients were moderately satisfied with the total quality of care level (structure & process) in the studied maternal and child health centers. Finally, a significant positive correlation was confirmed between the overall family planning clients’ satisfaction level and the total quality of family planning care level; total structure and total process quality of family planning services delivery.Conclusion and recommendations: it can be concluded that family planning services in maternal and child health centers at Damanhur had low total quality of care level with moderate clients’ satisfaction. This shed the light on the urgent need for numerous quality enhancement measures to promote all quality elements in the studied maternal and child health centers. In addition to, emphasizing clients' satisfaction as a high priority output of care.

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Ban, Paul, and Phillip Swain. "Family Group Conferences, part two: Putting the ‘family’ back into child protection." Children Australia 19, no. 4 (1994): 11–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s103507720000417x.

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This is the second of two articles examining the establishment of Family Decision Making in Victoria. The first ‘Family Group Conferences – Part One: Australia's first Project in Child Protection’ was presented in the previous edition of Children Australia. This article builds upon the first by presenting an overview of the evaluation of the Victorian Family Decision Making Project, and pointing to practice and other implications of the development of this Project for child welfare services generally.

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Swain, Phillip A. "Child Protection or Family Support — Directions in Family Welfare for the 80's." Children Australia 11, no. 2-3 (1987): 16–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0312897000016763.

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Child Protection and Family Support. These are two aspects of our work in family and children's services that have been much discussed over recent years. Can you protect a child whilst at the same time purport to support the family? Should the two functions be organisationally and structurally separated? Are they really just parts of the continuum of care and commitment which we all share in families and children? These and other similar questions have been frequently repeated during the first half of the 80's as we all searched for ways to meet the obvious deficiencies in the networks of families and children's services that had been established. But as we look to the remainder of the 80's there a number of critical issues which are well indentified but which we have yet to really come to grips with.

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García-Grau, Pau, R. A. McWilliam, Gabriel Martínez-Rico, and Catalina P. Morales-Murillo. "Child, Family, and Early Intervention Characteristics Related to Family Quality of Life in Spain." Journal of Early Intervention 41, no. 1 (October 7, 2018): 44–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1053815118803772.

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Family quality of life (FQoL) is considered one of the aims of early intervention (EI) services and a good indicator of service quality. Families were recruited from EI centers in 12 of 17 communities (states) in Spain. This study describes the FQoL of 250 Spanish families with children aged 0 to 6 years in EI services during a family-centered implementation process. We used an EI-specific FQoL scale that includes families’ perception of their child’s functioning as one factor. We also describe the relationships among individual, family, and service variables as well as FQoL. Type of disability, socioeconomic status, and family-centered practices impacted Child Functioning, Overall Life Situation, and Access to Information and Services factors, respectively. Fewer number of professionals involved was related with greater perception of child’s functionality. Family-centeredness, type of family, and type of disability were the most influencing variables for the Total score. Implications for practice are discussed.

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Farrell, Ann, Collette Tayler, Lee Tennent, and Debbie Gahan. "Listening to Children: A study of child and family services." Early Years 22, no. 1 (March 2002): 27–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09575140120111490.

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Rossiter, Chris, Cathrine Fowler, Amiee Hesson, Sue Kruske, Caroline S. E. Homer, Lynn Kemp, and Virginia Schmied. "Australian parents’ experiences with universal child and family health services." Collegian 26, no. 3 (June 2019): 321–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.colegn.2018.09.002.

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Walker, Steven. "Multidisciplinary Family Support in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services." Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry 8, no. 2 (April 2003): 215–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1359104503008002006.

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Bath, Howard I., Cheryl A. Richey, and David A. Haapala. "Child age and outcome correlates in intensive family preservation services." Children and Youth Services Review 14, no. 5 (January 1992): 389–406. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0190-7409(92)90043-u.

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Hutchison, Elizabeth D., Patrick Dattalo, and Mary K. Rodwell. "Reorganizing child protective services: Protecting children and providing family support." Children and Youth Services Review 16, no. 5-6 (January 1994): 319–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0190-7409(94)90025-6.

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Ainsworth, Frank. "Program evaluation for child and family services: What can be done?" Children Australia 23, no. 2 (1998): 39–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200008622.

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This article is about program evaluation for child and family services. It sets out to offer some basic frameworks for thinking about program evaluation and about the issue of program effectiveness. A rationale for the emphasis on effectiveness is identified and then linked to three areas of possible measurement. These areas, changes in user/client condition, quality of services provided and user/client satisfaction, are then considered in more detail. Finally, it is argued that service users/clients will gain from program evaluation exercises. The evaluation of services contributes potentially to an improvement in the effectiveness of child and family services so service users/clients obtain benefit from such evaluations.

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Berry, Marianne, and Scottye J. Cash. "Creating Community through Psychoeducational Groups in Family Preservation Work." Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services 79, no. 1 (February 1998): 15–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1606/1044-3894.1809.

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Intensive family preservation services are a specialized form of child welfare services based on the proposition that an intensive, multisystemic intervention can bolster the family's internal and external resources and prevent further child maltreatment and the need for placement of children into foster care. Research on child maltreatment has identified social isolation as a primary correlate of child abuse and neglect but has also found that informal social support from family and friends can be detrimental to family integrity. Formal pychoeducational support groups are presented and described as an alternative method to create supportive networks for families seeking to remain safe and remain together.

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Hofferth, Sandra L., and Ellen Eliason Kisker. "Comprehensive Services in Child-Care Settings: Prevalence and Correlates." Pediatrics 94, no. 6 (December 1, 1994): 1088–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1542/peds.94.6.1088.

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At the beginning of 1990, 80 000 day-care centers in the US were serving about 4 million preschool children.1 This represents threefold increase since 1976 to 1977 in the number of centers and a fourfold increase in enrollments. Approximately 118 000 regulated family day-care providers were serving about 700 000 children. There were between 550 000 and 1.1 million nonregulated family day-care homes that were serving an unknown number of children. The number of regulated family day-care homes and the number of children enrolled in those homes increased since the mid-1970s, though not as much as the number enrolled in centers. About 17% of the children enrolled in center-based programs and 5% of those enrolled in regulated family day-care homes came from families receiving public assistance. Low-income families are overrepresented in Head Start and other sponsored non-profit programs. The fact that increasing numbers of children are enrolled in early education and care programs presents an opportunity to serve the needs of disadvantaged children who may not necessarily receive nutritious meals, environmental stimulation, developmental screening, and adequate preventive health care at home. Programs such as Head Start, for example, are required to provide a comprehensive set of services in addition to a developmentally appropriate curriculum. In the first part of this paper we examine the general health and safety procedures followed by center staff and family day-care providers for sick children ill providers. The extent to which providers conform to health and safety provisions will be examined. For example, do providers maintain records, obtain medical releases, have the phone number of a physician, have an emergency medical plan, have a list of persons to whom the child may be released, and conduct fire drills?

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Denby, Ramona W., Carla M. Curtis, and Keith A. Alford. "Family Preservation Services and Special Populations: The Invisible Target." Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services 79, no. 1 (February 1998): 3–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1606/1044-3894.1801.

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Children of color are especially vulnerable for a devastating outcome as a result of their living environment and are disproportionately represented within the child welfare system. Social workers, who are trained to mitigate the effects of social injustice and societal inconsistencies, particularly among minorities and oppressed populations, perpetuate the injustices associated with the child welfare system by ignoring the special needs of children of color when administering family preservation services. The authors present results from a national study that examined the attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of family preservation workers regarding the service criterion based on whether a family is part of a special population. Results indicate a significant bias against targeting family preservation services to children of color.

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Gibbs, Deborah, Richard P. Barth, and Renate Houts. "Family Characteristics and Dynamics among Families Receiving Postadoption Services." Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services 86, no. 4 (October 2005): 520–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1606/1044-3894.3457.

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Postadoption services are an expanding service sector. This study determined the characteristics of families and children using a postadoption services program in New England. On average, children were 11 years of age at case opening and had been adopted for 6 years. Most had a history of maltreatment (57%), were adopted domestically (67%), and lived in adoptive families with married parents (82%). Almost all had received at least 1 other postadoption service (90%) and many (47%) had received 4 or more. Families' greatest concerns were child development and family relationships, with fewer concerns about culture, race, or birth parents. Although managing their children's behavior was a concern, families reported feeling effective and expressed considerable closeness to their child.

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Parish, Susan, Kathleen Thomas, Roderick Rose, Mona Kilany, and Robert McConville. "State Insurance Parity Legislation for Autism Services and Family Financial Burden." Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities 50, no. 3 (June 1, 2012): 190–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1352/1934-9556-50.3.190.

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Abstract We examined the association between states' legislative mandates that private insurance cover autism services and the health care–related financial burden reported by families of children with autism. Child and family data were drawn from the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (N = 2,082 children with autism). State policy characteristics were taken from public sources. The 3 outcomes were whether a family had any out-of-pocket health care expenditures during the past year for their child with autism, the expenditure amount, and expenditures as a proportion of family income. We modeled the association between states' autism service mandates and families' financial burden, adjusting for child-, family-, and state-level characteristics. Overall, 78% of families with a child with autism reported having any health care expenditures for their child for the prior 12 months. Among these families, 54% reported expenditures of more than $500, with 34% spending more than 3% of their income. Families living in states that enacted legislation mandating coverage of autism services were 28% less likely to report spending more than $500 for their children's health care costs, net of child and family characteristics. Families living in states that enacted parity legislation mandating coverage of autism services were 29% less likely to report spending more than $500 for their children's health care costs, net of child and family characteristics. This study offers preliminary evidence in support of advocates' arguments that requiring private insurers to cover autism services will reduce families' financial burdens associated with their children's health care expenses.

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Ng-Tay, Cindy Hui Mei, Joyce Teo, and Yi Ying Ng. "Trauma-informed child welfare practice model in Methodist Welfare Services Covenant Family Service Centre (Singapore)." Children Australia 44, no. 02 (April 29, 2019): 81–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cha.2019.10.

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AbstractIn view of the rise in child abuse in Singapore, our Family Service Centre developed a child welfare practice model to guide and anchor our practitioners in trauma-informed approaches. This practice model was developed over two years through literature reviews and qualitative interviews with practitioners. Three aspects of the practice model were found to be key in ensuring practitioners were trauma-informed in their practices, these being: the principles and values related to trauma-informed practice; reflection by practitioners on their attachment history and self; and the assessment of caregivers’ characteristics. Despite this practice model being largely beneficial for practitioners in our agency, implementation in the local context gives rise to certain challenges due to differences in beliefs about disciplining children.

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Morgan, Leslie A. "United Nations, THE FAMILY: Models For Providing Comprehensive Services for Family and Child Welfare." Journal of Comparative Family Studies 18, no. 1 (March 1987): 143–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jcfs.18.1.143.

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Campbell, Lynda. "Child Neglect and Intensive-Family-Preservation Practice." Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services 78, no. 3 (June 1997): 280–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1606/1044-3894.776.

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Australian social workers, like their American peers, have questioned the relevance of brief intensive-family-preservation services (IFPS) to child neglect. Three scenarios involving physical and environmental neglect are compared and contrasted, and the experience of an Australian pilot IFPS program is explored, highlighting the use made of the worker's time in the home, the significance of family history, social support, and issues in termination and follow-up. The case studies suggest three subtypes of neglect, each of which has different implications for the delivery and organization of IFPS.

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Lepistö, Sari Johanna, Noora Ellonen, Heidi Eveliina Rantanen, Maaret Kristiina Vuorenmaa, Mika Tapio Helminen, and Eija Paavilainen. "Parental Worries, Child Maltreatment Risk and Empowerment: How Are They Noticed in Child and Family Services?" Children 9, no. 2 (February 16, 2022): 269. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children9020269.

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Parental empowerment has been related to their well-being and self-efficacy. Learning more about the signs describing child maltreatment risk are crucial for the welfare of children and families. The aim of this study was to assess the risk of child maltreatment (CM) and related worrying factors of parents and associations between the CM risk, worries and parental empowerment. The study is based on self-report surveys administered to parents in primary health care and hospital settings. The risk of CM and related worrying factors were measured by the Brief Child Abuse Potential Inventory (BCAP) from 453 parents. Family empowerment was measured by The Generic Family Empowerment Scale (G-FES). Parents expressed worries such as loneliness and distress (20%), feelings of persecution (9%), family conflict (17%), rigidity (21%) and financial insecurity (4%). The BCAP found 27 parents with increased risk. Parents with CM risk expressed more empowerment in connection to services for their child and family. It is crucial to discuss worries in child and family services before they raise the risk level. Tools such as the BCAP are useful in systematically identifying the child maltreatment risk and parental worries under discussion, offering possibilities for preventing child maltreatment and increasing well-being of children.

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Kyzar, Kathleen B., and Jean Ann Summers. "Students With Deaf-Blindness and Their Families: Service Utilization and Satisfaction." Inclusion 2, no. 3 (September 1, 2014): 195–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.1352/2326-6988-2.3.195.

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Abstract Research on child- and family-related service needs for families of children with severe disabilities is scant, and the literature regarding the service needs of children/families with deaf-blindness is almost nonexistent. This study examined child and family disability-related service utilization and satisfaction with services from the perspective of a national sample of 227 parents who had a child aged birth through 21 with deaf-blindness. Participants were recruited from state deaf-blind technical assistance projects. We utilized survey research design and descriptive statistics to report results. Friend and family support had the highest ratings of utilization. Education and related services were also highly used, whereas mental health services and intervener services were among services/supports with the lowest rates of use. After-school care also had low rates of utilization and, for participants who reported using the service, satisfaction ratings were low. On average, only three services had satisfaction ratings within the “adequate” range: well-child checks, early intervention, and health provider (for informational purposes). A discussion of the findings in terms of the implications for family support policy, practice, and research is provided.

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Dworsky, Amy, Mark E. Courtney, and Andrew Zinn. "Child, parent, and family predictors of child welfare services involvement among TANF applicant families." Children and Youth Services Review 29, no. 6 (June 2007): 802–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2006.12.007.

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