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This is the second of a series of articles that examines the role that advocates for parents and families can play in furthering the wellbeing and safety of children. This article highlights emerging parent representation models that expedite the safe reunification of children already in foster care.
This resource is designed to help agencies, systems, and collaboratives working with young children and their families to chart a course toward an expanded approach to family engagement.
Introduction
This document has been produced to provide guidance for advocacy organisations and advocates delivering independent advocacy to families at risk. Independent advocacy organisations aim to offer a consistently high quality of independent advocacy across Scotland, this guidance will support those aims in relation to working with families at risk. The Guidance works alongside the Principles and Standards for Independent Advocacy and the associated Code of Practice. They have been written to apply to all types of advocacy. Throughout Scotland advocacy…
Peer-to-peer models have been demonstrated a successful intervention in a variety of disciplines. The Parent for Parent (P4P) model uses veteran parents to assist families that are just entering the dependency system navigate through it with the goal of successfully getting their children returned home. This model was adopted and developed in King County Washington, USA and seeks to assist families who are in the middle of child abuse and neglect (dependency) cases. Previous process and outcome evaluations have demonstrated success in King County. This evaluation sought to explore the…
The Detroit Center for Family Advocacy (CFA) started with a simple idea to address an injustice being witnessed in child welfare practice—children being removed from their families because their caregivers do not have access to help with legal issues affecting the safety and permanency of the children in their care. In response to this problem, the Child Advocacy Law Clinic at the University of Michigan Law School, led by Professors Vivek Sankaran and Don Duquette, set out to prevent removals and expedite permanency by providing multidisciplinary services to at-risk families. It was believed…
Abstract
The present study examined the effectiveness of Family Group Conferencing (FGC) in child welfare. Effects were operationalized in terms of child safety (child maltreatment, supervision order, and out-of-home placement), number of professional services used, parental empowerment, and social support in a 1-, 3-, 6-, and 12-month follow-up. Furthermore, the influence of family characteristics and the level of FGC completion were examined. A total of 328 families were included, randomly assigned to an experimental group (n = 229) and a care as usual (CAU) group (n…
As an outgrowth of Casey’s ongoing work with birth parents, Research Services and Technical Assistance Unit collaborated to review strategies and programs that increase birth parent engagement with child welfare services and that develop effective child welfare partnerships with birth parents as mentors, leaders and advisers.
This evaluation study was conducted in an effort to learn more about the innovative parent organizing model implemented by the Child Welfare Organizing Project (CWOP) in East Harlem, New York City and identify the role and impact of CWOP community representatives on birthparents, families, and child safety conference outcomes. CWOP community representatives attend child safety conferences with the birthparents to provide them with emotional support, resources as well as information about their rights and responsibilities within the child welfare system. The community representatives who are…
This process evaluation of the King County Parents for Parents Program (P4P) examines the program’s efficacy and suggests areas for continued improvement. The evaluation has five objectives: describe the components of the P4P; describe the participants in the P4P; examine parental perceptions of the overall dependency process before and after; dependency 101; consider potential areas of improvement for the P4P; and make recommendations for future implementations of the P4P. The findings indicate that the P4P is beneficial in: educating parents on the dependency system; reducing…
This article describes several parent partner/advocate programs operating around the United States, including programs that train parents to serve as parent mentors and programs that train parent leaders to sit at the decision-making table and influence child welfare policy. Many programs provide both types of training. A second article will discuss how attorneys can work with parent partners and advocates to provide their clients with the best possible representation and address ethical concerns and other challenges.