IMPLEMENTATION OF A COMMUNITY-BASED FAMILY-CENTERED PROGRAM IN PORTUGAL: A MULTIPLE CASE STUDY EVALUATION
Family‐centered, community‐based programs are particularly suited to support families with at‐risk children or maltreated children and achieve family preservation or reunification. In these child protection and child welfare cases, assessment is of great importance to inform decision making. But the...
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Published in | Journal of community psychology Vol. 40; no. 6; pp. 665 - 680 |
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Main Authors | , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Hoboken
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
01.08.2012
Wiley-Blackwell Wiley Subscription Services, Inc |
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Summary: | Family‐centered, community‐based programs are particularly suited to support families with at‐risk children or maltreated children and achieve family preservation or reunification. In these child protection and child welfare cases, assessment is of great importance to inform decision making. But the implementation of services to support the families change and its evaluation in real settings is not without challenges. The Integrated Family Assessment and Intervention Model (IFAIM) was designed to conduct assessment and intervention with multichallenged families with at‐risk or maltreated children and support the activities of the child protection system. In this article, we describe a pragmatic, focused on improvement, action research multicase study of the process and outcome of IFAIM's first implementation. Multiple factors affected implementation, namely, factors related with the teams, the organizations, and the communities. An improved model of implementation based on the evaluation results is proposed. |
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Bibliography: | ark:/67375/WNG-QGJCTKXK-W istex:7A7558B7B670BBA7F4306165C435800675F53EE4 ArticleID:JCOP20524 The present work was supported by a doctoral scholarship (SFRH/BD/39912/2007) attributed to the first author by the Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal. We thank all participating organizations and the professionals involved in this research project for their invaluable contribution. |
ISSN: | 0090-4392 1520-6629 |
DOI: | 10.1002/jcop.20524 |