Ensuring Authentic Representation and Collaboration Along with Research to Re-Design Child Welfare

Schelbe, Lisa; Geiger, Jennifer M.

doi:10.1177/10497315221074937

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“…Actionable knowledge and insights focussed on interagency collaboration and on the ways collaboration between agencies can be improved over time have important implications for practice and policy and will help develop the science for social change in child welfare. In addition to research, however, reform must also be built with children and families with lived expertise (see Schelbe & Geiger, 2022). Lessons learned from this study have implications for other interagency collaborative efforts focussed on child welfare, well‐being and resilience among children and families facing compounding adversities and interfacing with multiple systems.…”

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Interagency collaboration among community organizations serving children and families in child welfare

Kothari

Fischer

Mullican

et al. 2022

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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Transformational change to address adversity and nurture resilience requires deep and sustained community collaborations. Interagency collaboration is critically important for child welfare especially during crisis situations. It is clear that when agencies focus on strengths and promote protective factors (individual, familial and community-level) in time, negative consequences of maltreatment are reduced and wellbeing outcomes are enhanced. However, limited research is available to effectively inform community organizations and collective impact initiatives about how they can strengthen interagency collaboration and collaborative practice. Furthermore, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic elevates the urgency to understand how community organizations work together to serve children and families as it threatens access to safety nets. This mixed methods study examined interagency collaboration among community organizations in a collective impact workgroup focussed on children and families involved in the child welfare system. Results revealed key strengths to collaboration (e.g., strong connections, resource sharing, resilience in staff, more vulnerable children accessing resources and more adults engaged in serving this population)as well as barriers to collaboration (e.g., group composition, funding and lack of clarity/focus). Results also revealed specific ways in which this pandemic has impacted efforts to serve children and families in child welfare. Findings highlight an approach that might assist interagency collaboratives. In

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Interagency collaboration among community organizations serving children and families in child welfare

Kothari

Fischer

Mullican

et al. 2022

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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“…These are the reasons why each Thriving Families site has a specific emphasis on addressing issues of race equity and engaging individuals with lived expertise at all levels of the Thriving Families movement. As noted by Schelbe & Geiger, (2022), rather than researchers driving any collaborative efforts to re-design the child welfare system grounded in research, there must be shared leadership where all stakeholders have a voice in setting the agenda and defining problems and process. There is a need for meaningful collaborations to redesign child welfare.…”

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Using the Core Components of a Public Health Framework to Create a Child and Family Well-being System: Example from a National Effort, Thriving Families, Safer Children

Klika

Jones

Morgan

et al. 2022

Int. Journal on Child Malt.

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Thriving children require safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments. When caregivers have the resources and support they need, at the appropriate time, and in culturally meaningful ways, they can structure environments and experiences for their children that optimize development. However, all too many caregivers and children experience trauma and adversity that consistently threaten such environments. The USA currently lacks a universal system of care and support for children and families leaving the child welfare system as the only option for many families to get help. This forces child welfare agencies to address problems and issues they are ill-equipped to address. In this paper, we review how a new national effort in the USA, Thriving Families, Safer Children is integrating the core components of a public health framework to create a child and family well-being system across the country. Case study examples are provided from 4 Thriving Families, Safer Children sites. Thriving Families, Safer Children sites are utilizing the core components of a public health framework to address social and structural determinants of health including systemic racism, with a strong focus on changing systems and contexts, through participatory methods of engaging those with lived expertise, to ensure the service context where families can get what they need, when they need it, with an emphasis on promoting race equity. Efforts to transform child welfare through the Thriving Families, Safer Children movement are aligned with the core components of a public health framework.

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Youth-Caseworker Relationship Quality & Academic Resilience Among Transition-Age Youth in Foster Care

Jaramillo

Kothari

Alley

et al. 2022

Child Adolesc Soc Work J

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Ensuring Authentic Representation and Collaboration Along with Research to Re-Design Child Welfare

Cited by 7 publications

References 36 publications

Interagency collaboration among community organizations serving children and families in child welfare

Interagency collaboration among community organizations serving children and families in child welfare

Using the Core Components of a Public Health Framework to Create a Child and Family Well-being System: Example from a National Effort, Thriving Families, Safer Children

Youth-Caseworker Relationship Quality & Academic Resilience Among Transition-Age Youth in Foster Care

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