Supporting Families: Lessons from the Field / Edition 1

by Karen P. McCurdy, Elizabeth D. Jones

Overview

Supporting Families provides a practical, in-depth examination of a large scale, privately funded initiative designed to assist families before child protective services needed to be involved. The authors draw upon six years of programs evaluation data from nine unique prevention programs to confirm short and long term benefits to parents struggling to bring up their children in deteriorating urban communities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761906797
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	05/03/2000
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Child Abuse Prevention
Program Implementation Challenges
Changes in Parenting Practices
Long-Term Changes in Parenting Practices
Barriers to Parental Change
Keys to Engaging Families in Services
Future Directions