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‘Children Safe, Family Together', the new family and kin care model outlined in this paper forms an integral part of the overall strategy being currently implemented by Territory Families (TF) to transform Out-of-Home Care in the Northern Territory (NT). The strategy addresses worrying trend data pointing to the significant over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the NT child protection system. The strategy also seeks to reinforce the voices of Aboriginal organisations and communities for the Out-of-Home Care sector (OOHC) in the NT to honour the…
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Due to the Coronavirus outbreak, over the next few months, all of us will be practicing social distancing or will have to self-isolate. This will lead to significantly reduced physical interactions with people we love and care about.
The importance of your child’s welfare must take priority over everything during this crisis. You may be worried about your child and desperately missing visiting them but you, your child, their carer, social workers, and other family members must follow government Coronavirus guidance on staying at home and social distancing.
Maintaining…
Leher has been implementing a pilot community led child protection intervention in the District of Madhubani, Bihar, India since 2014, using participatory processes to test and learn the potential of local leadership of communities in demanding and securing child rights and protection. Leher’s vision is a society where caring families, alert communities and a responsive government work together to ensure rights and protection for every child.
In June 2017, Leher developed a “Virtual companion aka a VCPC Tool Kit” in partnership with the State Government of Maharashtra, Maharashtra State…
Rise - a New York City-based organization that builds the leadership of parents whose families have been harmed by the child welfare system - works with parents to reflect on their experiences with the child welfare system and to articulate their vision for policy and practice reform. In 2016, Rise began a collaboration with Graham Windham, JCCA and ACS to strengthen parent-child visiting by training frontline staff to better understand parents’ perspectives on visits and to provide parents with information about what’s expected in visits and how they can handle common…
This video from Rise Magazine features tips from parents who have had their children placed in foster care in the U.S. to other parents in the same situation on how to handle visits with their children in the care system.
This video from Rise Magazine - an organization that trains parents to write and speak about their experiences in order to support parents and parent advocates and guide child welfare professionals in becoming more responsive to the families and communities they serve - is designed to include in training for caseworkers, visit coaches, parent advocates and other frontline staff who will supervise or support parents during visits with children in foster care…
Child welfare agencies across the country are turning to parent partner programs as a powerful approach in their efforts to change the way they work with families. Through these programs, parents with experience in child welfare provide mentoring and support to other parents who are entering the system. The Parent Partner Program Navigator guides child welfare administrators, staff, and parent leaders through key components of designing and implementing successful parent partner programs. Developed collaboratively with experienced parent partners and program coordinators, the Navigator offers…
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.
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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…
Caseworkers advocate for services for individual families and help families learn to advocate for themselves and negotiate with service systems to obtain needed help. Caseworkers can also play a prominent role in empowering and advocating for families to become interdependent members of the community. Family advocacy focuses on the principles of family development, communication skills for workers, and promoting the participation of community residents and families in the design of services. The resources on this page address ways to advocate for families in the U.S. and include …