Reaching High-Risk Families: Intensive Family Preservation in Human Services - Modern Applications of Social Work

by Elizabeth Tracy

Overview

Focusing on a program ("Homebuilders") that has attracted national attention, this book develops implications for family-centered curricula in such areas as social policy, direct practice, program design/management, practice research, theory and prevention.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780202360584
Publisher:	Transaction Publishers
Publication date:	12/31/1990
Series:	Modern Applications of Social Work Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1420L (what's this?)

About the Author

Charlotte Booth is executive director of Homebuilders and executive director of the Institute for Family Development.

Jill Kinney is executive director of Home, Safe, a private Seattle, Washington nonprofit corporation begun in 1992 to develop and implement innovative approaches to helping families throughout the United States.

James K. Whittaker is Charles O. Cressey Endowed Professor Emeritus in the School of Social Work, University of Washington. He is a frequent consultant on child care training both in the Seattle area and nationally and is a consultant on research and training to the Child Development and Mental Retardation Center, University of Washington. He has served as director of the Social Welfare Program. He is also a founding member of the International Association for Outcome-Based Evaluation & Research on Family and Children’s Services.

Table of Contents

1: Family Preservation Services and Education for Social Work Practice: Stimulus and Response; 2: Recognizing and Realizing the Potential of “Family Preservation”; 3: The Homebuilders Model; 4: Family-Based Services and Public Policy: Context and Implications; 5: Theories Guiding Home-Based Intensive Family Preservation Services; 6: Family Preservation Services and the Social Work Practice Sequence; 7: Designing and Managing Family Preservation Services: Implications for Human Services Administration Curricula; 8: Applying Practice Research Methods in Intensive Family Preservation Services; 9: Creating Social Change: “Mission”-Oriented Research and Entrepreneurship; 10: Intensive Family Preservation Services: Broadening the Vision for Prevention; Afterword

Editorial Reviews

The Homebuilders program, the subject of this volume, begun in 1974 in Tacoma, Washington, has been successfully replicated in a number of other states. Its name has become synonymous with the intensive family preservation services that have recently and rapidly emerged in the US. These services are designed to aid families with multiple problems who are at risk of separation and of having their children placed in foster care. Edited by and with contributions from nationally known scholars and practitioners, this collection is the most comprehensive work on intensive family preservation services to date. Its ten chapters present and critique the major features of the Homebuilders model approach to aiding families in crisis, from the perspectives of policy, practice, program administration, and research. Implications for educating social workers and others in the mental health and helping professions are integrated throughout, making this volume particularly useful as a sourcebook for educators. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” —B. A. Pine, Choice

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