Connecting Vulnerable Children and Families to Community-Based Programs Strengthens Parentsʼ Perceptions of Protective Factors

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcia Hughes ◽  
Allison Joslyn ◽  
Morella Wojton ◽  
Mairead OʼReilly ◽  
Paul H. Dworkin
Keyword(s):  
Protective Factors ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Vulnerable Children ◽  
Community Based Programs

Children's and Family Services Working Together

2005 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Woodruff ◽  
Jon O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Protective Factors ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Risk And Protective Factors ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Family Welfare ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Family Services ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
Working Together

This paper is based on keynote addresses by Jane Woodruff, CEO, UnitingCare Burnside to the National Association of Community Based Children's Services, University of Wollongong, April 2004; and to the Mobile Children's Service Association Conference, Dubbo, August 2003. It offers the perspective of one NSW child and family welfare agency on reasons for children's and family services to work more closely together. These include a shared concern for the early years; the need to address common risk and protective factors; and research which suggests combining approaches will achieve better results for children and families. Drawing from current practice and policy initiatives, the paper then suggests three main areas where children's and family services can pursue greater cooperation.

Resilienza e bambini separati dalla propria famiglia d'origine. Una ricerca su 21 bambini nascosti sopravvissuti alla Shoah

2009 ◽  
pp. 128-144
Author(s):  
Marco Ius ◽  
Paola Milani
Keyword(s):  
Protective Factors ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Life Time ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Vulnerable Children ◽  
Child Survivors ◽  
Life Trajectories ◽  
Holocaust Child Survivors

- This paper reports on a qualitative research about resilience processes in Holocaust child survivors, particularly hidden children. Data refer to 21 life stories collected through 19 semi-structured interviews and 2 published biographies and analyzed assuming a Long Term approach that focuses on all life trajectories to obtain developmental outcomes within a life time perspective. The main aim of the research is to understand the protective factors that enable child survivors to develop and grow and can be used by social practitioners working with vulnerable children and families, in order to foster similar resilient responses in children away from home. Key words: resilience, child survivors, Holocaust, children out of home, protective factors.

The contamination of trauma. Traumatized minds, broken families and dysfunctional work groups: Organizational and interpersonal dynamics in complex child welfare court proceedings

2021 ◽  
pp. 053331642110150
Author(s):  
Stuart Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Work Groups ◽  
Work Group ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Organizational Dynamics ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Vulnerable Children ◽  
History Of ◽  
Adults And Children ◽  
Court Proceedings

Professional work groups engaging with traumatized and dysfunctional families are presented with a disproportionate challenge to an already inevitably painful process that can be an obstacle to balanced decision-making in the children’s best interests. Trauma, abuse and neglect can influence the professional culture that condenses around these families. This occurs more often with the most challenging families with a possible history of professional failure resulting in professional conflict, impulsive and poor decision-making due to the occasions that these destructive dynamics have become unmanageable. Serious case reviews into the deaths of children regularly outline professional failures relating to a breakdown in communication within the professional system and essential and potential lifesaving information having been lost or failing to have been acted upon. The ability to understand complex group and organizational dynamics and the ability to manage relationships with traumatized adults and children, as well as within traumatized work groups is, therefore, an essential skill set for professionals working with the most vulnerable children and families. This article explores trauma and its impact on a work group and why this process was disturbed by uncontained anxiety resulting in professional conflict.

Leveraging Family and Community Strengths to Reduce Child Maltreatment

2020 ◽  
Vol 692 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-139
Author(s):  
Debangshu Roygardner ◽  
Kelli N. Hughes ◽  
Vincent J. Palusci
Keyword(s):  
Child Maltreatment ◽  
Protective Factors ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Prevention Programming ◽  
Extant Literature

This article reviews and analyzes extant literature on the prevention of child maltreatment. We give an overview of protective factors that research finds to be efficacious in maltreatment prevention and pay particular attention to research that shows how health-based models and community-based models can leverage family and community strengths to that end. We go on to offer recommendations for potential future prevention programming, including an approach with untapped potential—the Prevention Zones framework. Finally, we discuss policy considerations and implications specific to the goal of increasing programming and services that leverage family and community strengths.

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