Collocation: Integrating Child Welfare and Substance Abuse Services
21 Feb 2009-Journal of Social Work Practice in The Addictions (Taylor & Francis Group)-Vol. 9, Iss: 1, pp 55-70
TL;DR: Findings suggest that clearly defined procedures and sufficient staffing of qualified substance abuse counselors could lead to better programs.
Abstract: This article presents findings from a process evaluation of a pilot program to address parental substance abuse in the child welfare system. By placing substance abuse counselors in a local child welfare office, the collocation program was designed to facilitate early identification, timely referral to treatment, and improved treatment engagement of substance-abusing parents. Frontline child welfare workers in 6 of the 7 pilot sites endorsed the program as they found that the collocated substance abuse counselors provided additional resources and facilitated case processing. Findings suggest that clearly defined procedures and sufficient staffing of qualified substance abuse counselors could lead to better programs.
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...A service integration model provides comprehensive services for clients and may reduce barriers that exist when each system operates independently (Marsh et al., 2011) as this approach addresses the challenges, priorities, and goals of both systems (Lee et al., 2009)....
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...The goal of this approach is to reduce some of the barriers to treatment that caregivers often encounter while also increasing early identification of at-risk children (Lee et al., 2009)....
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...…to expand to other counties.2 Examining an early phase of implementation, such as a pilot program, is essential for understanding the organizational factors, processes, and structures that may facilitate or impede successful implementation of a program and assessing its efficacy (Lee et al., 2009)....
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TL;DR: Despite the proliferation of evidence-based practices (EBPs) for children and families, the majority of children do not receive EBPs in the child welfare (CW) system, despite their efforts as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Despite the proliferation of evidence-based practices (EBPs) for children and families, the majority of children and families do not receive EBPs in the child welfare (CW) system, despite their gro...
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TL;DR: In this paper, parents whose children have been removed from their care because of maltreatment must resolve their problems within a limited time period for the family to be reunified, and they are required to report their problems to child welfare workers.
Abstract: Parents whose children have been removed from their care because of maltreatment must resolve their problems within a limited time period for the family to be reunified. Child welfare worke...
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...Reunifying parents have higher rates of many these problems than are found in the broader population of parents involved with child welfare (Libby et al. 2007; Marcenko et al. 2011)....
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TL;DR: Patton as discussed by the authors suggested that if one had to choose between implementation information and outcomes information because of limited evaluation resoures, there are many instances in which implementation information would be of greater value.
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...…techniques, such as the transtheoretical model of change (Prochaska & DiClemente, 1984; Prochaska & Norcross, 1999) and motivational interviewing (Miller & Rollnick, 2002), a process of engagement that is designed to overcome child welfare clients’ denial of abuse and to motivate them to enter…...
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