RE: Family support - best practice

["Barbara Smiley Ramirez" <bramirez@xxxxxxxxx>]

You may want to visit the Healthy Families America (HFA)website at
http://www.healthyfamiliesamerica.org/ .  This is a child abuse prevention
home visitation/family support program that is offered to at risk families
(newborns or prenatally) for a period of three to five years.
You may also wish to visit our website www.healthyfamiliesfla.org . We are
using the HFA model and have an extensive evaluation piece and our formative
and summative reports are online.

Barbara Smiley Ramirez
Program Specialist
Healthy Families Florida

-----Original Message-----
From:	owner-CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu
[mailto:owner-CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu] On Behalf Of
Hollows, Anne E
Sent:	Thursday, December 20, 2001 1:08 PM
To:	Child Maltreatment Researchers
Subject:	Family support - best practice


I have just been commissioned to prepare a literature review and mapping
exercise for a local authority in the UK. This involves identifying
their resources and shortfalls in family support (i.e. multi-sectoral
preventive interventions, including family preservation)and
identifying models of good practice for both individual services and models
of integrated service provision. I have access to articles in
Child Abuse and Neglect and also to Neil Guteman's recent book and would be
glad to hear from anyone on the list of sources beyond this, as
well as examples of good practice, preferably with empirical confirmation.
All contributions willbe most gratefully received as the
timescale for the work, which includes considerable consultation with users
and service providers, is very tight.

Dr Anne Hollows
Principal Lecturer in Social Work
School of Health and Social Care
Sheffield Hallam University
33 Collegiate Crescent
Sheffield S10 2BP

Tel +44(0)114 2252369
Email: a.e.hollows@shu.ac.uk

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