The Family Unit

1. The Family Unit Is the focus of our attention

2. work with the family as a collective unit.

3. Partner with families to resolve concerns and safeguard children, young persons, and other family members.

4. workers work with families during the investigation and service provision in a manner that respects families.

5. provide individualized, culturally-responsive, and relevant services for each family.

6. Helps to ensure the workers' responsibility for child protection.

7. Prepare families to take part, safely and effectively, in service planning and family decision making.

8. Mobilize resources to maximize communication, shared planning, and collaboration.

9. Listen.

10. Respect how families say and do things.

11. Encourage all family -- including children, relatives, and like family -- to give their views.

12. Family-centered practitioners partner with families.

13. Holding family and self accountable to make changes.

14. Praising small and big successes.

15. share planning and collaboration among the several community and/or neighborhood systems.

16. Changing practices and building community partnerships.

17. strengthen the family's potential for carrying out their responsibilities.

18. Establish relationships built on integrity.

19. placing value on face-to-face contact.

20. use the family’s expert knowledge throughout the decision- and goal-making processes.

21. Establish partnerships.

22. Help to insure the safety and well-being of family members.

23. decision-making, responsibility, and accountability is shared.

24. interventions assist in mobilizing resources.

25. learn continuously, and reinforce success.

26. stakeholders bear responsibility.

27. recognize the importance of the family unit to a child’s healthy development.

28. Involving families will reach more positive results sooner.

29. Value context of the family’s community.

30. recognize and support cultural differences and strengths.

31. Engage the family in the assessment process.

32. Collaboration.

33. shared risks and rewards.

34. children can flourish in different types of families.

35. Families who seem hopeless can grow and change.

36. Family members are our partners.

37. our job is to instill hope.

38. Parents should be supported in their efforts to care for their children.

39. Children have the right to their family.

40. It is better to ask questions than issue commands and threats.

41. the family as the unit of attention.

42. planning and decision-making include the family.

43. Families and community members should be partners in determining solutions and making decisions.

44. Meetings should be set up in a way that fits with and honors the family's culture.

45. informed family choice, and a family-strengths perspective.

46. The family is its own primary source of intervention and determines who its members are.

47. The family is viewed as a system within a larger social and environmental context.

48. interventions focus on accessing the family’s immediate and extended community.

49. The social worker and the family work hard to widen the circle of support for the children.

50. develop strength, enhance potential