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Reinvesting in families : strengthening child welfare practice for a brighter future : voices from the prairies / edited by Dorothy Badry [and three others].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Child welfare--Prairie Provinces.
- Child welfare.
- Family services--Prairie Provinces.
- Family services.
- Indian children--Services for--Prairie Provinces.
- Indian children.
- Indian children--Prairie Provinces--Social conditions.
- Prairie Provinces.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (328 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Regina, Saskatchewan : University of Regina Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Reinvesting in Families is the fourth in this series of child welfare books featuring voices from the prairies. This book is a collection of critical knowledge, issues and research in Canada related to the delivery of child welfare services from a family-focused and First Nations perspective. Addressing tough issues such as FASD, high-risk substance misuse, and family reunification, Reinvesting in Families presents thoughtful, best-practice research and is well-suited to instructors, research and is well-suited to instructors, students, and researchers who have an interest in child welfare practice and service delivery.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Foreword
- From the Editors
- Acknowledgements
- INTRODUCTION Offering Hope for Families
- Chapter 1 The PCWC Story: A Remarkable Collaborative Effort across Provincial, Jurisdictional, and Cultural Boundaries
- Chapter 2: The FASD Community of Practice Project: Promising Practices for Children in Care with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: A Model for Casework Practice
- Chapter 3: The Edmonton Model for Improving Delivery of Health-care Services for Children and Families in Care through Pediatric Case Management
- Chapter 4: Hearing their Voices: The Experiences of Women with High-risk Substance Misuse Involved with Mentoring Programs to Prevent FASD
- Chapter 5: Determinants of Mental Health Difficulties among Young Aboriginal Children Living Off-reserve
- Chapter 6: Research with, not on: Community-based Aboriginal Health Research through the Voices and PHACES Study
- Chapter 7: The Youth Restorative Action Project: Evaluating Effectiveness as a Youth-run Program
- Chapter 8: Outcomes-based Service Delivery (OBSD): The Process and Outcomes of Collaboration
- Chapter 9: The Voices of Youth with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Transitioning from Care: What Child Welfare Agencies and Youth Practitioners Need to Know
- Chapter 10: Community Networking for Social Change: A Promising Practice for Aboriginal Child Welfare
- Chapter 11: What Albertan Adults Know aboutFetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
- Chapter 12: Collaboration or Competition? Generalist or Specialized? Challenges Facing Social Work Education and Child Welfare
- Epilogue
- Abstracts
- Contributors
- Subject Index
- Author Index
- Notes:
- Includes indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780889773547
- 0889773548
- OCLC:
- 890957236
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