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Building Solutions in Child Protective Services (Hardcover, 1st ed)
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Building Solutions in Child Protective Services (Hardcover, 1st ed)
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How does one change the attitudes and practices of child protective
services (CPS) a statewide bureaucracy often overwhelmed and
understaffed? First, take an outsider to the system, Insoo Kim
Berg, who has a vision and a solution-focused model. Add an
insider, Susan Kelly, who understands the system. Spend many hours
with CPS workers in the field, learning from them and helping them
make the shift from a deficit perspective to a collaborative model
that emphasizes strengths and solutions. Envision and implement
change throughout the system. Celebrate small successes on the way
to building family self-sufficiency and integrity. This recipe for
reforming child protective services is being followed in many
public child welfare agencies, with growing success. In Building
Solutions the authors explain how to conceptualize, implement, and
sustain this hopeful and positive frame in a daily practice for
dedicated frontline workers as well as for those in supervision,
management, and administration. The book has two parts. In the
first, the authors put child protective services in context,
introducing the system and their new approach, giving a brief
history of child protection in the United States, and setting the
stage for change. In the second part, the authors walk readers
through the nuts and bolts of implementation, from the first phone
call to case closure including discussions about placing a child
out of the home. Berg and Kelly also discuss supervision,
consultation, and ongoing training, as well as their vision of the
future of CPS. This book is not a manual; it is a challenge to step
out of the traditional CPS "box" and think differently to create
client-driven services that make sense. The authors challenge CPS
administrators, supervisors, and workers to begin conversations
about how the system can be more helpful and respectful to the
families so that the parents can get what they need to care for
their children. Building Solutions should have a place on the desk
of everyone involved in child protective services."
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