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Promoting the Social Inclusion of Migrant Children and Young People: The duty of social services

This report aims to address key themes emerging from a questionnaire and in-person meeting to discuss the role of the social service workforce in inclusion of migrant children and young people.

Author(s): 
Valentina Guerra, David Brindle
Year of Publication: 
2018

Parental Participation in Child Protection Practice: The experiences of parents and workers in Ghana

This is the first study in Ghana to explore child protection workers and parents’ experiences on participatory practices. Drawing on in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 8 child protection workers and 19 parents, this study reports participants’ experiences of participatory practices.

Author(s): 
Ebenezer Cudjoe, Alhassan Abdullah
Year of Publication: 
2018

Program Components of Psychosocial Interventions in Foster and Kinship Care: A Systematic Review

This systematic review examines the comparative effectiveness of foster and kinship care interventions by exploring their potential to benefit child and carer well-being, particularly focusing on child behaviour problems and relational functioning.

Author(s): 
Jacqueline Kemmis-Riggs, Adam Dickes, John McAloon,Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review
Year of Publication: 
2017

A Quantitative Evaluation of the Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Prevention Services (MAPS) Program to Protect Children and Strengthen Families

This article presents the results from an evaluation of a state-funded, prevention-based, pilot program called the Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Prevention Services that was designed to reduce the potential for child abuse and neglect.

Author(s): 
Richard Hoefer and Dante Bryant
Year of Publication: 
2017

Family Group Decision-Making: Parent Advocates in New York City

This podcast showcases how parent advocates, who have past experience with the child welfare system, are using their knowledge to help support families within Family Group Decision-Making (FGDM). Listeners will learn how New York City's Enhanced Family Conferencing Initiative (EFCI) expands the role for its parent advocates to work with families.

Author(s): 
Child Welfare Information Gateway
Year of Publication: 
2017

Intention to Leave the Profession: Welfare Social Workers Compared to Health Care and Community Social Workers in Israel

This study aimed to compare specific work related-factors (personal factor: length of work experience; structural factors: personal subjection to violence and fear of being subjected to violence; and psychological factors: professional quality of life—compassion satisfaction, burnout, and compassion fatigue) between welfare social workers (SWs) and health care and community SWs.

Author(s): 
Michal Itzak and Maya Kagan
Year of Publication: 
2017

Supporting Successful Reunifications

Caseworkers should give careful consideration to assessing families’ capacity for keeping children safe and their readiness to reunify as well as to planning for postreunificationservices and contingencies in the event of future safety concerns. Child welfare agencies may find it challenging to help familiesachieve timely reunification while at the same time preventing children from reentering foster care. This article offers strategies for addressing both issues for a better outcome.

Author(s): 
Child Welfare Information Gateway
Year of Publication: 
2017

Practitioner Expertise to Optimize Community Health Systems

To harness the potential of community health workers (CHWs) to extend health services to poor and marginalized populations integration into well-designed and adequately funded health systems is vital.

Author(s): 
Madeleine Ballard, CHW Coalition; Ryan Schwarz, Possible; Ari Johnson, Muso; Shaun Church, Living Goods; Dan Palazuelos, Community Health Systems; Lisha McCormick, Last Mile Health; English Sall, Sall Family Foundation; Kevin Fiori, Hope Through Health
Year of Publication: 
2017

Family Case Management: A handbook for family case managers

This handbook is designed for the outreach workers involved in HIV care and support program in India. It details out the roles and responsibilities of Family Case Managers in addressing the wide array of health, psychosocial, nutrition, food security and education needs of the vulnerable children and families.

Author(s): 
FHI360/India
Year of Publication: 
2012

A Common Assessment Form: A guide to assessment and interdisciplinary case management for providing help to children and families at risk or in a difficult situation

This document is a guide to assessment and interdisciplinary case management for providing help to children and families at risk or in a difficult situation in Russia. The document outlines the basics of interdisplinary case management; the aims, principles and parameters of assessing the needs of the child and the family; recommended assessment tools; and recommendations on methods of using these tools.

Author(s): 
Partnerships for Every Child Russia

National Case Management System for the Welfare and Protection of Children in Zimbabwe

The purpose of this document is to provide a framework for implementation of the National Case Management System (NCMS) for the care, protection and welfare of children in Zimbabwe. It includes core concepts and principles, standard operating procedures, and forms applicable in similar contexts.

Author(s): 
Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare, Zimbabwe
Year of Publication: 
2017

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