PubMed · 11637417
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L V Oliver Sanchez. 1986. [Not Available].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11637417/
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Social workers have become increasingly involved in providing family-centered services to families with infants and toddlers who have developmental delays. This study examined the perceptions of barriers to family-centered services of 22 family members and 20 services providers in one local services delivery system. A family-centered approach focuses on helping families cope with the challenges of having children with developmental delays, helping families work collaboratively with services providers, and supporting families as they make decisions about services. Families have experienced barriers related to aspects of the traditional Part C early intervention system and to providers outside the realm of traditional early intervention services and barriers related to individual personality characteristics. Participants suggested several strategies for empowering families to take a more active role on early intervention teams.
The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the development of safety, permanency, and child well-being indicators by using administrative data sets as well as by using these indicators as tools for evaluating Florida's Community-Based Care (CBC) initiative. Longitudinal data from 37 counties including 4 counties that implemented community-based care were examined in this study. The results of the study indicated that the overall performance of CBC counties is at least as good as the performance of their comparison run by the state counties. The findings that emerged from this study may provide important lessons for developing a performance measurement system in the child welfare field.