Re: Untreatable Families

["Ed and Karen Berry" <eberry@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We are looking at using the Toronto Children's Aid Parenting Capacity tool
as a screening tool for just the reasons mentioned. The tool was developed
and field tested in child protection in the Metro Toronto area.

Ed Berry
Regional Child Protection Consultant
eoberry@ssrv.gov.bc.ca


-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Lawson <lawsonics@worldnet.att.net>
To: Child Maltreatment Researchers
<CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu>
Date: Thursday, March 12, 1998 9:07 AM
Subject: Untreatable Families


>Our Circuit Judge is interested in the topic of untreatable families,
>particularly how to assess families as untreatable at an earlier stage - so
>children do not languish in foster care longer than is necessary.  Does
>anyone know of any instruments for measuring treatability/untreatability or
>instruments that collate information available from a variety of sources to
>document treatability/untreatability?
>
>Thank you!
>
>Donna Watson Lawson
>Program Director
>Family Visitation Center of Alachu County
>P.O. Box 140009
>Gainesville, FL  32614-0009
>352-376-5186
>lawsonics@worldnet.att.net
>