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Family Centered Practice. The Heart of NC Child Welfare Reform. Principles of Partnership. Everyone desires respect. Everyone has strengths. Everyone needs to be heard. Judgments can wait. Partner s share power. Partnership is a process. Parallel Process.
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Family Centered Practice The Heart of NC Child Welfare Reform
Principles of Partnership • Everyone desires respect. • Everyone has strengths. • Everyone needs to be heard. • Judgments can wait. • Partners share power. • Partnership is a process.
7 Strategies of Multiple Response System • Collaboration between Child Welfare and TANF/Work First • Structured, strengths-based intake process • Choice of two responses to reports of abuse, neglect and dependency • Collaboration with Law Enforcement in abuse and serious neglect cases • Redesign of In-Home Services • Child and Family Team meetings throughout the life of the case • Shared Parenting meetings
System of Care Principles Provide services that are: • Community based • Culturally competent • Strengths based • Collaborative across systems that serve children, youth and families • Family centered and youth focused SOC also uses an integrated approach, evidence based practices and evaluates for outcomes.
Call us Anytime! • Patrice White, Appalachian Family Innovations 828-433-7187 patrice.white@familyinnovations.org • Holly McNeill, NC Division of Social Services 828-757-5672 holly.mcneill@ncmail.net