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Working With Families & Youth
Working with families and youth is at the core of good family-centered practice. To conduct assessment, case planning, and case management successfully, caseworkers must be skilled in communicating with children, youth, and families to help them strengthen interpersonal, parenting, and problem-solving skills.
Elements of effective work with families include engaging families and youth; providing direct assistance with challenges the family is facing, including counseling, parent coaching, and modeling; and continuing to assess with the family their strengths, needs, and progress.
Family-centered practice: Family & youth involvement
Family-centered practice: Family-centered services
Systemwide: Cultural competence–Working with children and families
Systemwide: Cultural Competence–Working with youth
Supporting & preserving families
Achieving & maintaining permanency: Preparing children and youth for permanency
Achieving & maintaining permanency: Transition and postplacement support
Adoption: Working with expectant parents and birth families
Systemwide: Service array