Family Centered Practice
Family Centered Practice. The Heart of NC Child Welfare Reform. Principles of Partnership. Everyone desires respect. Everyone has strengths. Everyone needs to be heard. Judgments can wait. Partner s share power. Partnership is a process. Parallel Process.
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Family Centered Practice The Heart of NC Child Welfare Reform
Principles of Partnership • Everyone desires respect. • Everyone has strengths. • Everyone needs to be heard. • Judgments can wait. • Partners share power. • Partnership is a process.
7 Strategies of Multiple Response System • Collaboration between Child Welfare and TANF/Work First • Structured, strengths-based intake process • Choice of two responses to reports of abuse, neglect and dependency • Collaboration with Law Enforcement in abuse and serious neglect cases • Redesign of In-Home Services • Child and Family Team meetings throughout the life of the case • Shared Parenting meetings
System of Care Principles Provide services that are: • Community based • Culturally competent • Strengths based • Collaborative across systems that serve children, youth and families • Family centered and youth focused SOC also uses an integrated approach, evidence based practices and evaluates for outcomes.
Call us Anytime! • Patrice White, Appalachian Family Innovations 828-433-7187 patrice.white@familyinnovations.org • Holly McNeill, NC Division of Social Services 828-757-5672 holly.mcneill@ncmail.net