Supporting families : lessons from the field / Karen McCurdy, Elizabeth D. Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCurdy, Karen.

Contributor:

Jones, Elizabeth D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child welfare--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Child welfare.

Child abuse--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Prevention.

Child abuse.

Family services--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Family services.

Dysfunctional families--Services for--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Dysfunctional families.

William Penn Foundation. Child Abuse Prevention Initiative.

William Penn Foundation.

Dysfunctional families--Services for.

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Physical Description:

x, 157 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [2000]

Summary:

Whether one talks about the family support movement, the early childhood movement, or child abuse prevention, program planners struggle with defining their target populations and structuring their interventions. This volume documents the efforts of the William Penn Foundation and its Child Abuse Prevention Initiative. By chronicling the efforts of this unique initiative and its groundbreaking research, the authors provide many useful lessons for practitioners, funders, policymakers and researchers. These lessons are particularly useful as child abuse prevention efforts seek to move beyond isolated demonstration efforts and toward a universal system of support for all parents. Through the lessons learned from the successes and failures of the foundation, this book has many implications for prevention efforts underway across the country, and forms a reservoir of knowledge on how to assess child abuse prevention in urban communities.

Contents:

1. Child Abuse Prevention 1

The Need for Effective Family Support Programming 2

The William Penn Foundation's Child Abuse Prevention Initiative 4

The NCPCA Evaluation 13

2. Program Implementation Challenges 19

Participant Characteristics 21

Program Issues 22

Community Setting 25

Funding Environment 28

3. Changes in Parenting Practices 35

Measures 36

Family Profiles 37

Changes in Parenting Capabilities 43

4. Long-Term Changes in Parenting Practices 57

The Follow-up Sample 59

Parent-Child Activities 69

Program Factors Affecting Change 72

5. Barriers to Parental Change 81

Internal Barriers 81

External Barriers 85

Community Violence 89

Parental Definition of Change 93

6. Keys to Engaging Families in Services 99

Method and Participants 101

Promising Retention Strategies 102

Critical Indicators of Future Noninvolvement 112

7. Future Directions 115

Major Insights 116

Unanswered Questions 120

Future Directions 121

Child Abuse Potential Inventory (CAP) 125

Likelihood to Engage in Maltreating Behaviors 126

Likelihood to Drop Out of Services 127.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-146) and index.

ISBN:

0761906789

0761906797

OCLC:

43384770