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The case for integration
Published in Chris Hanvey, Shaping Children’s Services, 2019
A third example of efforts to improve health integration, and again recorded by the Nuffield Trust, is the Liverpool Family Health and Wellbeing model. This sought to establish a multi-agency culture of shared care and seamless delivery across child and family services. Once more, the aim of this model was clinicians from primary and secondary care working both together and closer to local authority colleagues. All of this joint working aimed to achieve better paediatric services in the community, better links with other professionals and a more systematic approach to early intervention.
An Evaluation of Child Welfare Design Teams in Four States
Published in Katharine Briar-Lawson, Joan Levy Zlotnik, Evaluation Research in Child Welfare: Improving Outcomes Through University-Public Agency Partnerships, 2018
Dawn Anderson-Butcher, Hal A. Lawson, Carenlee Barkdull
A key aspect of empowerment is joint ownership, enfranchisement, and power-sharing (Lawson, 2001). The empowerment-oriented process begins when participants accept invitations issued by faculty facilitators to join permanent teams. Two groups of experts comprise the teams: (1) Family experts, i.e., persons who are experts because of their careers as “clients” in the various service systems and their experiences with co-occurring challenges involving substance abuse, mental health needs, domestic violence, and employment-related assistance and social supports; and (2) Helping professionals from relevant service sectors who are concerned with one or more of these co-occurring needs. These service sectors include domestic violence, mental health, employment and workforce services, substance abuse, juvenile and criminal justice, child and family services, and child protection services.
Prevention Strategies and Programs
Published in Pedro J. Lecca, Thomas D. Watts, Preschoolers and Substance Abuse, 2014
Pedro J. Lecca, Thomas D. Watts
An example of a program that fits the model of family-centered parent training and also addresses the social context of the family is the ecobehavioral approach to the treatment and prevention of childabuse and neglect offered through the Illinois Department of Child and Family Services (DCFS) in rural counties of southern Illinois. This program offers up to 15 kinds of services to families that have been charged with child abuse or neglect or are considered high risk.
Identifying Practical Knowledge for Introducing Information Systems in Community Social Care Agencies: A Scoping Review
Published in Journal of Technology in Human Services, 2023
Yvonne J. Burns, Corina Modderman, Janet Congues, Evelien Spelten
Trialing search terms aimed to capture the complexity within the literature. Limiting the relevant studies that addressed these questions, however, proved challenging. Early testing identified many words and phrases with similar meanings across disciplines and countries. Information systems could, for example, be case management systems or its acronym CMS, electronic information systems (EIS or IS), information and communication systems (ICT), or management information systems (CIMS, IMS), or management systems (MS). So too, when considering social care, different countries used different terms such as “child welfare,” “child and family services,” “human services,” “support services,” and even “non-medical services.” Social work might be “social care,” “human services,” “human service agencies,” “HSOs,” “child welfare,” “child welfare services,” “child and family services,” “child welfare” or “welfare services.” Two key search terms were chosen, “information systems” and “social work”.
Links between social environment and health care utilization and costs
Published in Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 2018
Marie A. Brault, Amanda L. Brewster, Elizabeth H. Bradley, Danya Keene, Annabel X. Tan, Leslie A. Curry
While advocacy for older adults was generally prominent in higher performing communities, there were two communities in which participants felt that advocacy for older adults was eclipsed by concerns for other groups, such as children. …at least from policy and the legislature and different folks, kids are a huge issue. Our Child and Family Services Department, in terms of just the need, the foster care, those are huge. Those have huge budget implications…There’s less emphasis on Aging Services because the kid side of things is so massive. (Division Director of a Human Services Agency, Site 16)
Educators’ Observations of Children’s Display of Problematic Sexual Behaviors in Educational Settings
Published in Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2018
Lesley-Anne Ey, Elspeth McInnes
Their research found that 51 children, 37% males and 32% females, enlisted from Florida Department of Child and Family Services, had been sexually abused by other children, with 42% experiencing this abuse once, 30% experiencing it 2–5 times, 9% experiencing it 6–10 times, and 19% more than 10 times. Of these children, 47% were abused in their homes, 30% in friends’ or relatives’ homes, and 16% at school (Shaw et al., 2000). These children were aged between 4 and 16 years, with a mean age of 8 years. Shaw and colleagues (2000) also found that trauma outcomes and behavioral outcomes were not significantly different for a child abused by an adult or another child (Shaw et al., 2000). Sperry and Gilbert (2005) did similar research to Shaw and colleagues with American first year psychology students and found that 41% of their 61 participants had been sexually abused by peers. Of these, 68% of the perpetrators were males and 32% were female. The most common forms of abuse were exposing or touching genitals. There were minimal forms of penetration or oral sex. Nevertheless, outcomes for future mental health were similar for abuse victims of peers versus adults, other than psychopathic deviate, psychasthenia, and schizophrenia, which developed in victims of adult abuse. The child perpetrators were more likely to be extrafamilial (84%) than familial (16%) (Sperry & Gilbert, 2005). Research conducted with American women who were attending support groups for incest survivors explored the effects of the sexual abuse on their adult functioning. This research found that 14% of these women were sexually abused by their older brothers. Abuse began for these women from as young as 5 years old, and the average length of abuse was 7.9 years (Rudd & Herzberger, 1999).