Children living in transition : helping homeless and foster care children and families / edited by Cheryl Zlotnick.
2014
362.733 C536z 2014
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Title
Children living in transition : helping homeless and foster care children and families / edited by Cheryl Zlotnick.
ISBN
9780231160964 (cloth : alk. paper)
0231160968 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780231160971 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0231160976 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780231536004 (ebook)
0231160968 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780231160971 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0231160976 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780231536004 (ebook)
Published
New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
Language
English
Description
xii, 244 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Call Number
362.733 C536z 2014
System Control No.
(OCoLC)842879021
(OCoLC)842879021
(OCoLC)842879021
Summary
Sharing the daily struggles of children and families residing in transitional situations (homelessness or because of risk of homelessness, being connected with the child welfare system, or being new immigrants in temporary housing), this text recommends strategies for delivering mental health and intensive case-management services that maintain family integrity and stability. Based on work undertaken at the Center for the Vulnerable Child in Oakland, California, which has provided mental health and intensive case management to children and families living in transition for more than two decades, this volume outlines culturally sensitive practices to engage families that feel disrespected by the assistance of helping professionals or betrayed by their forgotten promises. Chapters discuss the Center's staffers' attempt to trace the influence of power, privilege, and beliefs on their education and their approach to treatment. Many U.S. children living in impoverished transitional situations are of color and come from generations of poverty, and the professionals they encounter are white, middle-class, and college-educated. The Center's work to identify the influences or obstacles interfering with services for this target population is therefore critical to formulating more effective treatment, interaction, and care. -- From publisher's website.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction
Theories of practice with transitional families
Transitional families : where do i begin? / Cheryl Zlotnick and Luann DeVoss
"We don't get whuppings here anymore" : toward a collaborative, ecological model of parenting / Marguerite A. Wright
Giving voice : an exploration of the integration of social justice and infant mental health / Erica Torres and Kathryn Orfirer
Preparing the organization for its work with transitional families
Letting some air into the room : opening agency space for considerations of culture and power / Lisa R. Berndt
Rediscovering positive work relationships within a diverse relationship-based organization : serving children in transition / Karen Thomas
Promising programs and culturally informed interventions
Transforming shame : allowing memories in foster care to inform interventions with foster youth / Lou Felipe
Crossing the border and facing the system : challenges immigrant families experience when a child is removed from their care and placed into the child welfare system / Rosario Murga-Kusnir
"I am bad!" / Roberto Macias Sanchez
"When do i get to go home?" / Peggy Pearson
The CATS project : helping families land on their feet / Vance Hitchner
Needs for the future
A systems dilemma : intergenerational foster care and homelessness / Cheryl Zlotnick
List of contributors
Index.
Theories of practice with transitional families
Transitional families : where do i begin? / Cheryl Zlotnick and Luann DeVoss
"We don't get whuppings here anymore" : toward a collaborative, ecological model of parenting / Marguerite A. Wright
Giving voice : an exploration of the integration of social justice and infant mental health / Erica Torres and Kathryn Orfirer
Preparing the organization for its work with transitional families
Letting some air into the room : opening agency space for considerations of culture and power / Lisa R. Berndt
Rediscovering positive work relationships within a diverse relationship-based organization : serving children in transition / Karen Thomas
Promising programs and culturally informed interventions
Transforming shame : allowing memories in foster care to inform interventions with foster youth / Lou Felipe
Crossing the border and facing the system : challenges immigrant families experience when a child is removed from their care and placed into the child welfare system / Rosario Murga-Kusnir
"I am bad!" / Roberto Macias Sanchez
"When do i get to go home?" / Peggy Pearson
The CATS project : helping families land on their feet / Vance Hitchner
Needs for the future
A systems dilemma : intergenerational foster care and homelessness / Cheryl Zlotnick
List of contributors
Index.
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