Veteran Parents in Child Protective Services: Theory and Implementation

Nilsen, Wendy; Affronti, Melissa; Coombes, Margaret

doi:10.1111/j.1741-3729.2009.00572.x

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“…This type of relationship prevents the feeling of isolation and solitary experience suffered by some biological families. This is a matter of providing social and emotional support to families, standing up for their voices with respect to protection services, helping connect families with formal and informal networks, and helping families to advocate for themselves (Frame, Conley, & Berrick, 2006;Leake, Longworth-Reed, Williams, & Potter, 2012;Lorthridge, McCroskey, Pecora, Chambers, & Fatemi, 2012;Nilsen, Affronti, & Coombes, 2009).…”

Section: Perspectives On Working With Families For Reunificationmentioning

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Exploring the needs of parents for achieving reunification: The views of foster children, birth family and social workers in Spain

Balsells

Pastor

Inchaurrondo

et al. 2015

Children and Youth Services Review

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Background: Family reunification refers to the process through which children and adolescents under a measure of temporary separation (foster care or residential) return to live with their biological families. The research has begun to reflect a paradigm change in intervention and support for these families that affects the consolidation of reunification and the prevention of new processes of separation and reentry into the protection system. Objectives: This article examines the needs of parents who are susceptible to an educational intervention from a positive focus that contributes to the consolidation of family reunification. Method: Eighteen semi-structured interviews were conducted and 22 discussion groups were convened with 135 participants (63 protection-system professionals, 42 parents and 30 children and adolescents). The data were analyzed through content analysis and were subject to peer revision. Results: A series of parents' specific educational needs when their children return home was recognized. These needs can be the objects of family intervention based on a positive focus directed toward highlighting parents' strengths and are related to awareness of family progress, emotional management, giving and receiving help from other families and social support. The participants' comments show that feelings of self-sufficiency and positive reinforcement are fundamental for consolidation of the process. Conclusions: Social support through formal and informal networks may be a path to explore for providing more and better support after returning home. Empowering families so that they can be agents of support for other families can be a way to consolidate reunification, allowing families to be active agents in the reunification process. In addition, listening to children's voices can be a good strategy for family consolidation.

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Section: Perspectives On Working With Families For Reunificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the needs of parents for achieving reunification: The views of foster children, birth family and social workers in Spain

Balsells

Pastor

Inchaurrondo

et al. 2015

Children and Youth Services Review

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“…For families with removed youth, the process of reunification and behavior change is typically coordinated by a case worker who refers parents to appropriate service providers and, ideally, continues to partner with the families throughout the process. Active partnering between the case worker and the parents has been documented to result in better alignment between the families' needs and formal case planning, which increases family commitment and compliance to the case plan (Nilsen, Affronti, & Coombes, 2009). However, the reality is that child welfare workers are not always able to be a fully engaged partner with their families because of high caseloads (GAO, 2003;Marcenko, Brown, DeVoy, & Conway, 2010), burdensome paperwork (Falk, 2015;Marcenko et al, 2010), and increased levels of stress and burnout (Anderson, 2000;Mor Barak, Nissly, & Levin, 2001).…”

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Outcomes of the Iowa Parent Partner program evaluation: Stability of reunification and re-entry into foster care

Chambers

Lint

Thompson

et al. 2019

Children and Youth Services Review

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“…The level of family engagement with the Child Protective Services (CPS) agency influences how accurately service plans address family members' needs and ultimately whether families benefit from available services (Nilsen et al 2009). Guided by the conceptual framework of the engagement process in CPS agencies (Staudt 2007), we conceptualize caregiver engagement as the result of negotiated understandings stemming from social interactions with professionals.…”

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Caregiver involvement in behavioural health services in the context of child welfare service referrals: a qualitative study

Jolles

Flick

Wells³

et al. 2016

Child & Family Social Work

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Human service agencies serve a growing number of adults with behavioral health needs. Despite these agencies’ key role in identifying need and facilitating services, many individuals do not receive care or end services prematurely. Few studies have explored the experiences of families referred to behavioral health services by such agencies or the extent to which families’ perceptions of service need align with those of treatment providers and frontline workers. This study presents findings from a qualitative study of caregivers involved with child welfare agencies who were referred to behavioral health services. Researchers reviewed agencies’ case records and conducted in-depth interviews with 16 caregivers, 9 child welfare caseworkers, and 12 behavioral health treatment counselors. Findings suggest that when deciding to engage in services, caregivers weigh not only their individual and family behavioral health needs but also potential agency intervention, including loss of child custody. Many professionals reported that involvement with a child welfare agency hindered the caregiver's disclosure of behavioral health care needs. Implications for managers and practitioners are discussed.

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Veteran Parents in Child Protective Services: Theory and Implementation

Cited by 8 publications

References 49 publications

Exploring the needs of parents for achieving reunification: The views of foster children, birth family and social workers in Spain

Exploring the needs of parents for achieving reunification: The views of foster children, birth family and social workers in Spain

Outcomes of the Iowa Parent Partner program evaluation: Stability of reunification and re-entry into foster care

Caregiver involvement in behavioural health services in the context of child welfare service referrals: a qualitative study

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