What it is?
Different people or groups working together toward a goal they all agree on, with everyone doing what they do best.
What is collaboration?
In a child welfare case, a private family meeting is held where decisions are made and a plan is created to protect the child. This may involve keeping the child at home, providing extra support, or sending the child to live with another family member. Monitoring the plan is discussed and documented. It is crucial for professionals and non-family members to leave the room during this stage to avoid revealing sensitive information or implying that the family cannot manage their own affairs without professional help.
What is private family meeting?
Collaboration with families offers numerous benefits, including empowering them, enhancing efficiency, saving resources, and promoting the family development approach.
What is the benefit of collaboration?
A major goal of family development is to _________ families to develop healthy relationships within their own communities, and to solve their own problems.
When individuals experience others interest in those roles as unwanted interference.
What are Turf issues?
Help each other out, but no one has changed the way they do business.
What is coordination?
Collaboration often breaks down when one or two people or agencies set the goals and then expect the other "collaborators" to support these goals (without any power to make decisions). This does not mean that everyone needs to make every decision together. It does mean that the collaborators need to decide in the beginning who will be in on what kinds of decisions.
What makes collaboration work?
A good way to help families chart the networks they are part of and identify places where they could find more support from their informal networks
What is Family Circle Assessment?
Be generous with appreciation for your collaborators.
What can you do about turf issues?
Agree to help each other out in specific ways
What is cooperate?
What is the role of the Family Group Coordinator (FGC)?
Coordination
What is the first step to collaboration?
"A person whose Family Circles diagram shows many agency people but few personal friend is probably too ___________ on agencies."
What is dependent?
Bring yourself and your collaborators back to the reason you are collaborating.
What to do when your collaborators seem to be getting caught up in turf issues?
An informal meeting of all the members of a family who have a stake in the decision they're discussing (and are capable of helping to make the decision).
What is Family Conferences?
All members of the child's family (defined by law as blood relatives) who can be located are invited to attend the FGC.
Who attends a Family Group Conference?
A collaboration between a family development worker and a family.
What is effective family development work?
- Promote the vitality and family-supportiveness of the city, village, or rural area where to you work
- Help families develop their own informal support networks
- Help families conduct their own family conferences
- Support family members in facilitating community meetings, and support and advocacy groups
What is family development worker?
an agency that has been providing the same service for many years may feel threatened if another agency begins offering a similar service or doing things in a new way.
What is agency turf issues?
Experience others' interest in those roles as unwanted interference
What is turf issues?
The first stage of a family conference involves a warm welcome from a family member and the FCG Coordinator, followed by a presentation by an elder, prayer, song, or poem by a child. The Coordinator then explains the conference's purpose, while both family and non-family guests provide information about the child's safety, well-being, and strengths. The providers discuss their services and any behavioral outcomes that must be part of the family's plan.
What is welcome, introduction and information sharing?
Collaboration involves joint planning, pooling resources, and evaluating the outcomes together.
What does collaboration involve?
Made up of people who share a common situation, such as being nursing mother's parents of children with specific kind of disability, or caregivers of Alzheimer's patients.
What is support group?
* Being able to meet their own goals.
* Learning teamwork process they can use with other people in their lives.
What are some appropriate incentives, for the families you work for?