Redistribution and recognition in social work practice: Lessons learned from providing material assistance in child protection settings.

Saar-Heiman, Yuval; Krumer-Nevo, Michal

doi:10.1037/ort0000525

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“…In practical terms, the PAP is based on a combination of intensive relational-based and rights-based practices. This combination allows social workers to recognize and respond to the emotional and material needs of service users [9,14,15].…”

Section: Poverty-aware Social Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Rights-based practice According to the PAP's practical model, social rights are mainly addressed via the "active realization of rights" [9] and the provision of material assistance using the family's "flexible budget" [15,26]. Our sample indicates a thorough adoption of these practices in the PAP programs, e.g., [7,18,23] and beyond the PAP programs in the general operation of some of the SSDs [28,29] thanks to the new special rights social workers' role, which has been established in approximately half of the SSDs in Israel [16].…”

Section: Social Workers' Implementation Of Pap Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

“…This narrative builds on a conservative perspective on therapeutic processes, highlighting the centrality of emotional over material assistance [14]. Thus, the PAP intervention tool of the flexible budget challenges the common professional perspective of social workers [15].…”

Section: Social Workers' Implementation Of Pap Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, the flexible budget raises professional tensions and presents challenges. Qualitative research with 20 social workers in P4 detailed how they moved between conservative and poverty-aware perspectives in terms of the degree of collaboration with service users in determining the purposes of the budget and in terms of trust in service users, as well as in their perception of emotional and material types of support [15].…”

Section: Social Workers' Implementation Of Pap Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

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Poverty-Aware Programs in Social Service Departments in Israel: A Rapid Evidence Review of Outcomes for Service Users and Social Work Practice

Timor‐Shlevin

Saar-Heiman

Krumer-Nevo

2023

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Critical perspectives and practices are fundamental to social work, yet there are only scarce examples of direct critical practice in public social services, and even fewer empirical evaluations of their outcomes for service users and social workers. This article presents a rapid evidence review of 25 evaluation studies of five programs that operate in the social services departments in Israel according to the principles of the Poverty-Aware Paradigm (PAP). The PAP is a critical paradigm for direct social work practice with people living in poverty that was implemented in the welfare services by the Ministry of Welfare, targeting over 14,000 service users. The evaluation studies we reviewed encompass an overall quantitative sample of 4612 service users and 1363 professionals, and a qualitative sample of 420 service users and 424 professionals. The findings present: (1) the program’s outcomes for service users in terms of relationship with social workers, financial circumstances, family relations, and children’s safety; and (2) the program’s impact on social workers’ attitudes and practices. Finally, we discuss the lessons learned regarding social workers’ role in combatting poverty, the construction of success in interventions with people in poverty, and the article’s limitations.

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Section: Poverty-aware Social Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Social Workers' Implementation Of Pap Practicementioning

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Section: Social Workers' Implementation Of Pap Practicementioning

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Section: Social Workers' Implementation Of Pap Practicementioning

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Poverty-Aware Programs in Social Service Departments in Israel: A Rapid Evidence Review of Outcomes for Service Users and Social Work Practice

Timor‐Shlevin

Saar-Heiman

Krumer-Nevo

2023

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“…Secondly, the children's social care system needs to engage more effectively with the material needs of children and families. Too often families feel misunderstood, blamed, mistrusted and threatened rather than helped (Saar‐Heiman & Krumer‐Nevo, 2021). Thirdly, as noted above, there needs to be a major programme of research.…”

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A review of the relationship between poverty and child abuse and neglect: Insights from scoping reviews, systematic reviews and meta‐analyses

2022

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An up‐to‐date and accurate picture of the evidence on the impact of poverty is a necessary element of the debate about the future direction of children's social care services internationally. The purpose of this paper is to update evidence about the relationship between poverty and child abuse and neglect (CAN) published since a previous report in 2016 (Bywaters et al., 2016). A systematic search was conducted, identifying seven reviews. Poverty was found to be consistently and strongly associated with maltreatment, be that in terms of familial or community‐level poverty, or in terms of economic security. Findings demonstrated that both the type and the quantity of economic insecurities impacted child maltreatment. Certain economic insecurities – income losses, cumulative material hardship and housing hardship – reliably predicted future child maltreatment. Likewise, as families experienced more material hardship, the risk for maltreatment intensified. In some studies, the relationship between poverty and maltreatment differed by abuse type. Future reviews need to investigate individual papers and their findings across different CAN measures, definitions, samples, abuse types and conceptualisations of poverty to provide a comprehensive understanding of the current research base and the directions which need to be taken to further understand and prevent CAN.

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Money Matters: Time for Prevention and Early Intervention to Address Family Economic Circumstances

Axford

Berry

2023

J of Prevention

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Child poverty is associated with poorer physical and mental health, negative educational outcomes and adverse long-term social and psychological consequences, all of which impact on service demand and expenditure. Until now, however, prevention and early intervention practice has tended to focus on enhancing inter-parental relationships and parenting skills (e.g., via relationship skills education, home visiting, parenting programs, family therapy) or child language, social-emotional and life skills (e.g., early childhood education, school-based programs, youth mentoring). Programs often target low-income neighborhoods or families but rarely address poverty directly. While there is substantial evidence for the effectiveness of such interventions in improving child outcomes, null results are not uncommon and even positive effects are often small, short-term, and difficult to replicate. One avenue to enhance intervention effectiveness is to improve families’ economic circumstances. There are several arguments for this refocusing. It is arguably unethical to focus on individual risk without acknowledging or seeking to address (where relevant) families’ social and economic contexts, while the stigma and material constraints associated with poverty can make it harder for families to engage with psychosocial support. There is also evidence that increasing household income improves child outcomes. Although national policies to alleviate poverty are important, it is increasingly recognized that practice-based initiatives have a role to play (e.g., income maximization, devolved budgets, money management support). However, knowledge about their implementation and effectiveness is relatively thin. For instance, there is some evidence that co-located welfare rights advice in healthcare settings can improve recipients’ financial circumstances and health, but it is mixed and of limited quality. Moreover, there is little rigorous research on whether and how such services affect mediators (parent-child interactions, parenting capacity) and/or child physical and psychosocial outcomes directly. We call for prevention and early intervention programs to attend more to families’ economic circumstances, and for experimental studies to test their implementation, reach and effectiveness.

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Redistribution and recognition in social work practice: Lessons learned from providing material assistance in child protection settings.

Cited by 9 publications

References 32 publications

Poverty-Aware Programs in Social Service Departments in Israel: A Rapid Evidence Review of Outcomes for Service Users and Social Work Practice

Poverty-Aware Programs in Social Service Departments in Israel: A Rapid Evidence Review of Outcomes for Service Users and Social Work Practice

A review of the relationship between poverty and child abuse and neglect: Insights from scoping reviews, systematic reviews and meta‐analyses

Money Matters: Time for Prevention and Early Intervention to Address Family Economic Circumstances

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