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Best Practices For Increasing Meaningful Youth Participation In Collaborative Team Planning, Janet S. Walker, Barbara J. Friesen, Rujuta Gaonkar, Beckie Child, Laurie E. Powers, Ariel Holman
Best Practices For Increasing Meaningful Youth Participation In Collaborative Team Planning, Janet S. Walker, Barbara J. Friesen, Rujuta Gaonkar, Beckie Child, Laurie E. Powers, Ariel Holman
School of Social Work Faculty Publications and Presentations
Human service and educational agencies and systems often convene teams to work collaboratively on plans for serving children or youth. This is particularly true for children and youth who are involved with multiple systems or who are felt to be in need of intensive intervention. hese kinds of planning teams include IEP (Individualized Education Plan) teams, wraparound teams, foster care Independent Living Program teams, transition planning teams, youth/family decision teams, and other teams that create service or treatment plans. Unfortunately, it is often true that these plans are created for youth, with little input or buy-in from the young people …
Focal Point, Volume 20 Number 02, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 20 Number 02, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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This issue of Focal Point describes the need for, and provides examples of, new strategies for meeting the mental health needs of children and adolescents involved with the juvenile justice system.
Focal Point, Volume 20 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 20 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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This issue of Focal Point discusses how social support can be harnessed to improve children's mental health. Articles in this issue define and recommend various methods of establishing and improving social support among families, mentors, and peers. Types of support examined include family–to–family support, wraparound, peer support, and natural support.
Focal Point, Volume 19 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 19 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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This issue of Focal Point examines the concepts of resilience and recovery and what they mean in the context of mental health care for children and adolescents. A resilience-and-recovery perspective highlights new ideas and strategies for transforming mental health care for children and adolescents.
Social Worker Perceptions Of Services Directed Toward Sexual Minority Youth And Their Families In Child Welfare Agencies, Travis James Webb
Social Worker Perceptions Of Services Directed Toward Sexual Minority Youth And Their Families In Child Welfare Agencies, Travis James Webb
Theses Digitization Project
Sexual minority youth are coming out about their same-sex attractions earlier in recent years. Such youth and their families may experience a range of potential problems and concerns, suggesting that the child welfare system may need to do more to respond to the unique needs of this population. By employing a qualitative research design, this study, using face-to-face interviews with ten child welfare workers, examined child welfare agencies' ability to adequately render services to sexual minority youth and their families.
Focal Point, Volume 18 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 18 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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This issue highlights recent work at the Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health in Portland, Oregon. The Center's work is guided by a vision of family–professional partnership within systems of care serving children with emotional or behavioral disorders and their families.
Focal Point, Volume 17 Number 02, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 17 Number 02, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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The authors of the articles in this issue of Focal Point represent a spectrum of Wraparound's stakeholder groups—family members, service providers, trainers, and researchers. From their different perspectives, they discuss the issues of quality and fidelity. What is striking is the extent to which these perspectives converge in their descriptions of successful practice and implementation. This Focal Point issue is evidence that substantial progress is being made in bringing a clearer focus to the Wraparound vision.
Focal Point, Volume 17 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 17 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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This issue of Focal Point offers insight on cultural reciprocity, clinical outcomes for diverse youth, culturally competent research practices for African-American communities, identifying behavioral strengths in Black children, and cultural competence in services.
Focal Point, Volume 16 Number 02, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 16 Number 02, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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The articles in this issue describe a variety of strategies communities have used to systematically engage the perspectives of family and community members. With these strategies in place, family and community members have the opportunity to play a central role in making and monitoring concrete action plans for increasing cultural competence.
Focal Point, Volume 16 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 16 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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Strengths-based practice is not just about supporting consumers as they identify and use their own positive capacities and assets. It is also about finding community assets which help link the consumer to these potential informal and community supports. For many people—consumers and providers alike—there is a great appeal to the idea of building an individual’s strengths while drawing on the community to build a supportive, individualized network of relationships and involvements. Yet when it comes down to planning and providing services and supports for children with emotional and behavioral disorders and their families, it is often difficult to see whether …
Social Support Among Emancipated Foster Youth, Nicole Anita Hart
Social Support Among Emancipated Foster Youth, Nicole Anita Hart
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of this study was to examine whether or not having social support serves as a tool of encouragement for youth to become skilled in areas preparing them for adulthood.
Elementary School Educators' Opinions About Child Protective Services, Anna-Melissa Cecilia Mccarthy
Elementary School Educators' Opinions About Child Protective Services, Anna-Melissa Cecilia Mccarthy
Theses Digitization Project
This study examined the opinions of public elementary school educators in Western Riverside County towards Child Protective Services (CPS). It also investigated whether their opinions influenced cooperation with CPS surrounding child abuse and neglect. Data was gathered from 196 public elementary school teachers from 12 elementary schools in 3 districts using a quantitative, non-standardized, group-administered questionnaire.
Focal Point, Volume 15 Number 02, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 15 Number 02, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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This issue of Focal Point begins from the idea that enrichments, far from being frivolous, are instead essential. The joy and meaningfulness which enrichments provide make a direct, positive contribution to quality of life. What is more, enriching experiences add to our reserves of strength and purpose, and these reserves in turn enable us to adapt, cope, recover and even thrive in the face of challenges and stresses. Specifically, this issue of Focal Point looks at research related to sources of enrichment, and at innovative programs that promote enrichment and achieve positive outcomes for children with emotional and behavioral challenges, …
Focal Point, Volume 15 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 15 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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Transitions are difficult for all of us, but for children and youth with emotional and behavioral challenges, transitions are often both more difficult and more frequent than for their peers. Even “normal”, age-defined transitions such as the transition to kindergarten or the transition to independent living are often extremely difficult for children and youth with emotional and behavioral challenges, and for their families or other caregivers. Transitions—accompanied by the disruption of routine and the need to interact with unfamiliar people—are precisely the types of situations that are often most unsettling and stressful for these children.
Focal Point, Volume 14 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 14 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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FROM THE EDITORS. It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to the premiere collaborative issue of Focal Point. The joint effort between the Center For Effective Collaboration and Practice and the Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children’s Mental Health exemplifies a larger partnership initiative put forward by the Center for Mental Health Services’ (CMHS) Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program. The goal of an enhanced partnership is to promote improved services that lead to better outcomes for youth and their families. Along these lines we hope you find the fruits …
Killing Ostriches: Young Women, Family Violence And Youth Work, Judy Kulisa
Killing Ostriches: Young Women, Family Violence And Youth Work, Judy Kulisa
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
Using a phenomenological approach, this study, "Killing Ostriches" sought to investigate the experience of violence in the home of a small group of young women living in the northern suburbs of Perth. Seven young women between the ages of 17-26 took part in the study. Five of these young women claimed to have experienced violence in their family of origin and the: remaining two, introduced for triangulation purposes, claimed not to have done so. The study sought, not only to explore the lived experience of violence in the home for these young women, but to also investigate their experience of …
Focal Point, Volume 14 Number 02, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 14 Number 02, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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Young people are assuming more, and more empowered roles in systems of care. They participate actively in planning for their own services and treatment, setting policy, and evaluating programs. This issue includes a discussion of resources that have been developed to help in the process of developing youth-adult partnership in these areas.
Focal Point, Volume 13 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 13 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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This issue of Focal Point examines the ways in which families with employed caregivers and children with emotional and behavioral disorders manage to meet the demands of employment and family responsibilities. Finding a fit between the demands of work and family life is a struggle for every employed mother and father. For parents whose children have emotional, behavioral, or mental disorders, meeting this challenge can prove extremely stressful, particularly since supportive services are notably lacking. Although Fernandez has estimated that 10% of all employed parents have at least one child with a disability living in their homes, there has been …
Focal Point, Volume 12 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 12 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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Much of the family member involvement that is happening at the state and local level is due, at least in part, to the efforts by the federal government to institutionalize family involvement in policymaking. In 1985 Child and Adolescent Service System (CASSP) staff added a family goal to the program. This goal translated into a requirement that state applications for CASSP funds describe how families would participate in service planning efforts at the child and family, program, and system levels. In 1986 Congress passed the State Mental Health Services Comprehensive Plan (Public Law 99-660), which mandated family member participation in …
Focal Point, Volume 11 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 11 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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In the discussion on the issues of juvenile crime, the nation has ignored the prevalence of mental disorders among youth who commit crimes, and it has failed to provide policy directives on how state systems should respond. With the nation’s attention riveted on youth violence, the issue of prevalence has began to emerge, with the realization that many of the violent acts are committed by a small percentage of young people. Policymakers are beginning to ask questions about the conditions that contribute to a young person’s tendency toward delinquency acts.
Focal Point, Volume 10 Number 02, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 10 Number 02, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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The federal Child and Adolescent Service System Program (CASSP), launched in 1984, has been an important contributor to the movement to make major changes in the way services are provided to children with severe emotional disorders and their families . The principles underlying CASSP call for community-based systems of care that are comprehensive and emphasize coordination among child-serving agencies, service delivery in the least restrictive environment, full involvement of families, and cultural competence. These principles have been widely accepted in the worlds of child welfare, child mental health, juvenile justice and special education.
Focal Point, Volume 09 Number 02, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 09 Number 02, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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Men are increasingly discovering the many joys of active involvement in their children's lives. The special bond between father and child produces measurable, positive effects in regards to a child's self-esteem, gender identity, intellectual growth, curiosity and social skills. Current literature increasingly portrays dads as caretakers, supportive, sensitive and caring. However, this enhanced involvement can be sorely tested when a child has a disability or chronic illness. The dreams fathers have for their child's life, educational, athletic and vocational achievements are threatened.
Focal Point, Volume 08 Number 02, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 08 Number 02, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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There is an increasing awareness of the role culture plays in the delivery of health and human services (10, 30, 32). One recent response in the area of children's mental health has been the emergence of the Child and Adolescent Service Program's (CASSP's) cultural competence model.
Focal Point, Volume 08 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 08 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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The 103rd Congress has set itself an ambitious agenda. Between now and October, five Congressional committees are to report out their versions of health care reform legislation, from which a single piece of legislation must be written and forwarded to President Clinton for his signature.
Youth Worker Perceptions Of Abused Young Women, Suzie Omelczuk
Youth Worker Perceptions Of Abused Young Women, Suzie Omelczuk
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
Youth workers across Australia are coming into contact with young women who have been abused. However, the nature of that contact, and the ways in which youth workers are responding to these young women is not known. The aim of this study is to determine how youth workers in the metropolitan area of Perth perceive and act upon issues of abuse faced by the young women using their services. The study draws upon literature dealing with issues of abuse facing children and young people. Within the study issues such as problems arising from trying to define abuse are examined, as …
Focal Point, Volume 05 Number 02, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 05 Number 02, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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In this issue of Focal Point we address the special needs of lesbian and gay youth and their families. The United States Department of Health and Human Services' 1989 Report of the Secretary's Task Force on Youth Suicide defines gay and lesbian youth as those who have a primary attraction to members of the same sex for intimate and sexual relationships (4). A variety of explanations have been offered to describe the origins of individual sexual orientation. While homosexuality may involve both elements of nature and nurture, the origins of sexual orientation are generally believed to be established during early …
Focal Point, Volume 04 Number 02, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 04 Number 02, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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Children Grow Better in Families. This was the slogan on a 1984 poster developed by the Children's Bureau to emphasize the benefits of adoption -- not only to a waiting child, but to the adoptive home itself through the enrichment the new member brings to the existing family system. The slogan rings true for all types of families -- not only those restructured through adoption or remarriage, but those that are formed in more conventional ways. The child welfare system today is heavily invested in family preservation and the philosophy of permanency for children who have been placed outside their …
Focal Point, Volume 04 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 04 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Research and Training Center - Focal Point
Improving collaboration between parents ,family members and professionals has recently become a central theme in efforts to improve services for children c.md adolescents with emotional and behavioral disorders. In this issue, conceptual issues and practical applications of parent-professional collaboration are presented. Here, we examine the rationale for collaboration, some common barriers to effective partnership and key elements that enhance a collaborative relationship. Accompanying articles describe a broad array of activities occurring throughout the country to promote collaboration, support parent organizing efforts, and enhance family support policy and practice.
Focal Point, Volume 03 Number 03, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 03 Number 03, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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We are concerned about parents who have children with emotional disabilities in need of a range of services -- particularly out-of-home placement -- who have, in countless instances, been required to transfer custody of their children to the state for the sole purpose of obtaining necessary services at public expense. This requirement appears to stem, primarily, from the following: (1) a mistaken belief on the part of the state and local officials that federal reimbursement under Title IV-E of the Social Security Act is available only where legal custody of a child has transferred to the state; and or (2) …
Focal Point, Volume 03 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 03 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Research and Training Center - Focal Point
Cultural competence is a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes and policies that come together in a system, agency or professional to work effectively in cross-cultural situations. The word culture is used because it implies having the capacity to function effectively. A culturally competent system of care acknowledges and incorporates - at all levels - the importance of culture, the assessment of cross-cultural relations, vigilance towards the dynamics that result from cultural differences, the expansion of cultural knowledge and the adaptation of services to meet culturally unique needs.