Full Description
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
Foreword ?. Margaret Kovach
From the Editors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Offering Hope for Families - Dorothy Badry
Chapter 1: The PCWC Story: A Remarkable Collaborative Effort across Provincial, Jurisdictional, and Cultural Boundaries - Sharon McKay
Chapter 2: The FASD Community of Practice Project: Promising Practices for Children in Care with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: A Model for Casework Practice - Dorothy Badry,William Pelech, and Denise Milne
Chapter 3: The Edmonton Model for Improving Delivery of Health-care Services for Children and Families in Care through Pediatric Case Management - Tami Masterson
Chapter 4: Hearing their Voices: The Experiences of Women with High-risk Substance Misuse Involved with Mentoring Programs to Prevent FASD - Linda Burnside
Chapter 5: Determinants of Mental Health Difficulties among Young Aboriginal Children Living Off-reserve - Christine Werk, Xinjie Cui, and Suzanne Tough
Chapter 6: Research with, not on: Community-based Aboriginal Health Research through the "Voices and PHACES" Study- Amrita Roy, Wilfreda Thurston, Lynden (Lindsay) Crowshoe,David Turner, and Bonnie Healy
Chapter 7: The Youth Restorative Action Project: Evaluating Effectiveness as a Youth-run Program - Elly Park,Katie Gutteridge, Auralia Brooke, and Erik Bisanz
Chapter 8: Outcomes-based Service Delivery (OBSD): The Process and Outcomes of Collaboration- Susan Gardiner,Bruce MacLaurin, and Jon Reeves
Chapter 9: The Voices of Youth with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Transitioning from Care: What Child Welfare Agencies and Youth Practitioners Need to Know - Don Fuchs andLinda Burnside
Chapter 10: Community Networking for Social Change:A Promising Practice for Aboriginal Child Welfare- Judy Gillespie, Georgina Supernault, and Miriam Abel
VChapter 11: What Albertan Adults Know aboutFetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) - Cecilia Bukutu, Tara Hanson,and Suzanne Tough
VChapter 12: Collaboration or Competition? Generalist or Specialized? Challenges Facing Social Work Education and Child Welfare ?William Pelech, Rick Enns, and Don Fuchs
Epilogue - H. Monty Montgomery
Abstracts
Contributors
Subject Index
Author Index
