Re: Child/ Family Protective Teams

[Burt Cohen <cohen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Several years ago, the Philadelphia Department of Human Services formed a
task group that was looking into the possibility of going to a team aproach
to CPS work.  I don't know what came of it, or if anything was actually
implemented. I believe the person who chaired the task group was Jan
Peverly.  She could reached by calling 215-683-6000.

Burt Cohen
University of Pennsylvania
 

At 11:14 AM 10/30/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Colleagues,
>
>In concert with our State Department of Social Services we are looking for 
>information specific to using a team (vs. one on one) approach in
Family/Child 
>Protective Work. Specifically, we are looking for feedback from
demonstration 
>projects, or models like this operating in public child welfare systems.
>
>We are looking for published as well as non-published contacts to gather
data 
>regarding the effectiveness of team work in child/family protective systems.
>
>That is, many states still
>>use a caseworker to case method: we are looking for data regarding the
models
>>and effectiveness of a team model in this work. This straddles both research
>>as well as practice reporting: qualitative reports from programs now engaged
>>in this model are welcome as well.
>
>Much appreciated. Please CC John Vogel above in your response.
>Mary Byrne
>
>Mary Byrne
>byrneml@bc.edu
>Boston College GSSW
>
>
>
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