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MODEL OF CHILD

WELFARE PRACTICE
Professor Dr Siti Hajar Abu Bakar Ah
Department of Social Administration & Justice
Universiti Malaya
LECTURE OUTLINES
1. Introduction

2. Casework Model

3. Group Work Model

4. Family-Centred Casework Practice Model

5. Community-based Model in Child Welfare Practice

6. Integrated Child Welfare Practice Model


INTRODUCTION
Child welfare social workers specialize in building upon the strengths within
a family and their community to help provide a safe and loving environment
for their children. However, in some instances, social workers must
intervene to protect children from harm.

Child welfare system is made up of government and private services that


are designed to protect children and encourage family stability. Within
child welfare, social workers help plan and deliver services for children
and families. They are mandated to work within the perimeters of the
Child and Family Service Act in their jurisdiction, as well as other relevant
Acts, standards and regulations related to the services they provide.

Social workers act in the best interests of the child, and they believe that
ideally, most children are better served in their own homes with resources to
support and strengthen families. They investigate reports of children in need
of protection, support families who need help caring for their children,
arrange for children to live with family, foster families or licensed group
homes when they aren’t safe at home, arrange permanent adoptive homes,
and support youth leaving foster care.
CASEWORK MODEL
Casework
Practice Model
•Casework Practice is the foundation of Public
Child Welfare. The CEBC defines casework
practice as services, delivered by a caseworker
employed or contracted by a Public Child
Welfare agency, that are designed to help
families strengthen family functioning and
address challenges that may threaten family
stability.
Group activities encourage youngsters to practice their motor and
GROUPWORK cognitive abilities while also promoting overall mental and physical
WITH development. Kids can benefit from engaging in creative activities to
help them learn shapes, measuring, and sorting abilities as well as
CHILDREN creative thinking.
•Working with at-risk youth:
Community Services Workers
FAMILY-CENTRED PRACTICE
MODEL
Family centered practice is based upon the belief that the best way to meet a
person’s needs is within their families and that the most effective way to
ensure safety, permanency, and well-being is to provide services that engage,
involve, strengthen, and support families. Family centered workers strive to
preserve families and prevent out-of-home placements when this can be done
safely. The family-centered model, which views families as having the capacity
to make informed decisions and act on them, differs from models in which
professionals make decisions alone or with only the assistance of the family.
Key components of family centered practice include:
* Engaging with family members to understand their lives, goals, strengths,
and challenges and developing
a relationship between family and practitioner
* Working with the family to set goals, strengthen capacity, and make
decisions
* Providing individualized, culturally responsive, and evidence-based
interventions for each family

Family centered practice spans the community-based services continuum and is


Family centered practice includes
community-based services for those
who may be at risk of experiencing
more serious problems, intensive and
Family-centered practices (FCPs) use a variety of
focused in-home services directed at
different tools for child development, where the
preventing family disruption, family
development, provision, and assessment
involvement and guidance when a
of healthcare is equally constructive to both children
period of out-of-home placement is
and their families. FCP is valuable to clients of all
necessary, and strong family support
children and can be applied in many different
following adoption in order to prevent
healthcare settings. Family centered practices can be
subsequent disruptions and further
used for many different situations. They can be used
trauma. A combination of system
for cases such as child abuse and/or neglect.
reforms and evidence-supported
interventions will generate a more
efficient, effective, and family
centered system.
COMMUNITY-
BASED MODEL When services are community-based, the work done with the
child and family is in the context of where the child lives. The
IN CHILD community (faith-based organizations, non-profit agencies,
neighbours, and other institutions) can offer additional positive,
WELFARE informal supports to the child and family.
PRACTICE
Example:
Community
-based
Child
Protection
Services
INTEGRATED CHILD WELFARE PRACTICE
MODEL
Integrated Children’s System Framework
Select a model that you believe
is most effective for assisting at-
Tutori risk children. Please explain why
this model resonates with you
al and how you plan to implement
it in your group's assignment to
make a positive impact.
READINGS

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