Family Meetings as a System Reform to Address Racial Disproportionality and Disparities

Allan, Heather; Rauktis, Mary Elizabeth; Pennell, Joan; Merkel‐Holguin, Lisa; Crampton, David

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-54314-3_16

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“…Walton et al (2005) labelled it the "heart" of FGC. Allan et al (2021) outlined three theoretical frameworks-empowerment theory, social support theory, and decision-making theory-that undergird family meetings and their attempts to address racial disproportionality. The FGC literature, however, lacks theoretical frameworks for the distinctive component of PFT.…”

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Adapting private family time in child protective services decision‐making processes

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Merkel‐Holguin

2023

Child & Family Social Work

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The Family Group Conference (FGC) is grounded in a rights‐based framework, whereby children and their families have the right and responsibility to be primary decision‐makers when child protection issues arise, and the statutory agency has the responsibility to convene the entitled members of the family network to lead the decision‐making. A distinct core component of FGC—private family time (PFT)—allows families to discuss the information and formulate their responses and plans privately during conferencing. This paper describes how a large child welfare agency in the United States adapted PFT in two ways: (1) including a parent advocate (PA) and (2) abbreviating the amount of time allowed for this discussion. Given the lack of empirical research on the PFT component, this qualitative exploratory study sought to understand the functions and perceived impacts of PA‐supported PFT during initial child protective services (CPS) conferences at which decisions of child removal or placement were being contemplated. PFT served multiple beneficial functions and impacted families in several positive ways: families gained greater awareness of safety concerns, felt empowered and confident in the preferred safety and service plan, became increasingly engaged and involved in the case decision‐making process and ultimately felt less apprehensive.

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Adapting private family time in child protective services decision‐making processes

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Merkel‐Holguin

2023

Child & Family Social Work

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“… 1 As found by evaluations of family group conferencing (FGC) with general and racialized populations (Allan et al, in press), ‘ohana conferencing increased the likelihood that children would live with their families. In the case of EPIC, this result occurred when conferences were held after a concerted search for relatives and early in a case before agency plans became set and hard to modify (Hawai‘i Department of Human Services [HDHS], 2012).…”

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Family and Community Approaches to Intimate Partner Violence: Restorative Programs in the United States

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Now is the time to rethink reliance on legal intervention to end intimate partner violence (IPV). Arrest, incarceration, and family separation have fallen disproportionately on people who are Black or Brown, impoverished, or immigrant, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ). Restorative approaches bring together the persons harmed, persons causing harm, their family or community networks, or combinations of these stakeholders. Based on a U.S. national study, this article examines: What influences programs to adopt a restorative approach to ending IPV? How do programs safeguard their original vision for social change? What principles guide the programs in carrying out their work in safe and productive ways?

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“…Next, we identified more potentially relevant primary studies using snowballing. We inspected reference lists of meta-analyses and systematic reviews (Allan et al, 2021;Dijkstra et al, 2016;McGinn et al, 2020;Valentine et al, 2019; and studies found through the electronic search. These additional sources resulted in 73 records.…”

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Better together: Supporting youth with mental health needs by utilizing the social network

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The purpose of this dissertation was to advance our knowledge on the effectiveness of youth interventions that utilize the social network. To this end, we had three aims: 1) to provide insight into the effectiveness of youth care programs that utilize the social network; 2) to zoom in on the effectiveness of one program specifically, which is developed for youth with mental health needs in multi-problem families (i.e., InConnection); and 3) to better understand the links between pandemic-related stress, informal and formal support and mental health in multi-problem families. 1. How effective are interventions that activate the informal network? An overview study with different intervention types showed that youth interventions which activate the informal network are not more effective than interventions in which the network is not engaged. However, under certain circumstances, interventions that activate the social network were more effective. For example, interventions in which youth decide for themselves who to engage from their informal network, interventions in which only one person is involved, and interventions for youth with mental problems, did have significant effects. 2. How effective is InConnection for youth from multi-problem families? InConnection is an outpatient, systemic treatment for multi-problem families, in which a multidisciplinary team of professionals collaborates with an informal mentor according to the youth-initiated mentoring (YIM) approach. Interviews showed that almost all participants were positive about the collaboration with a YIM. The match between the needs of youth and parents and what mentors thought they could offer turned out to be good in most cases. The effectiveness study showed that InConnection showed some positive effects compared to treatment as usual, namely a decrease in the emotional and behavioral problems of youth and an increase in positive parenting behavior from the parents' perspective. No differences in effectiveness were found for the other outcome measures, including youth well-being and resilience. 3. Does support protect against mental health problems in youth and parents from multi-problem families during the Covid-19 pandemic? Due to the measures taken during the Covid-19 pandemic, youth and their parents had fewer opportunities to receive support from their network, while the risk of mental health problems increased, especially among vulnerable groups. Results showed that the pandemic was experienced as stressful by some youth from multi-problem families. Youth who experienced pandemic-related stress had a higher risk of mental health problems, especially if they reported receiving little or no formal support (therapist support). Parents were minimally affected by pandemic-related stress, suggesting strength and flexibility. Youth and parents who experienced support from their informal and/or formal networks during the pandemic had fewer problems, thus showing the importance of providing help and support to people with mental health problems during stressful situations such as a pandemic. These findings illustrate that despite the complex challenges that vulnerable youth (such as youth with mental health problems and youth from multi-problem families) experience, interventions with characteristics of YIM in general and InConnection specifically are as good or even better than other interventions in supporting youth and reducing their problems.

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Family Meetings as a System Reform to Address Racial Disproportionality and Disparities

Cited by 6 publications

References 45 publications

Adapting private family time in child protective services decision‐making processes

Adapting private family time in child protective services decision‐making processes

Family and Community Approaches to Intimate Partner Violence: Restorative Programs in the United States

Better together: Supporting youth with mental health needs by utilizing the social network

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