Effects of an interdisciplinary approach to parental representation in child welfare

Gerber, Lucas A.; Pang, Yuk C.; Ross, Timothy; Guggenheim, Martin; Pecora, Peter J.; Miller, J. Jay

doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2019.04.022

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“…Attorneys, who often represented and served parents of origin and/or children, were the most likely to endorse the belief that COVID-19 had slowed reunification and to endorse being very concerned about disruptions to reunification. Of note is that when parents have high-quality legal representation, reunification may be more successful, and children’s length of time in foster care lower (Gerber et al, 2019). Perhaps, at least in this sample, attorneys’ awareness of and concerns about the potential negative impact of COVID-19 speaks to a heightened level of dedication to and advocacy on behalf of the parents and youth they serve—a vulnerable group during non-pandemic times (Fong, 2017) and one whose rights are uniquely threatened during COVID-19.…”

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confidence: 99%

The impact of COVID-19 on child welfare-involved families: Implications for parent–child reunification and child welfare professionals

Goldberg

Brodzinsky

Singer

et al. 2021

Developmental Child Welfare

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The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted children and parents involved in the child welfare system and the professionals working with these families. Using survey data collected August–September of 2020, this mixed-methods study examined the perspectives of 196 child welfare-involved professionals (77 attorneys, 99 caseworkers, and 20 therapists) in the United States about the impact of COVID-19 on parents of origin, children, foster parents, and child welfare professionals. Particular attention was paid to the implications of COVID-19 and associated challenges for parent–child contact and reunification. With respect to professional stresses, more than half of participants worried about their own personal safety and health amidst COVID-19, and more than three-quarters expressed concerns about the safety and well-being of child welfare-involved families. Participants, especially attorneys, expressed concerns about parent–child contact and disruptions to reunification. In-person parent–child visits had all but ceased during the early part of the pandemic, and participants identified barriers to effective virtual visits, including lack of foster parent oversight, technology issues, and children’s developmental stage and/or lack of engagement. Attorneys were especially critical of the cessation of in-person visits and viewed this as a serious threat to child-parent bonds and reunification. Participants, especially child welfare workers, voiced concerns about children’s mental health and educational outcomes amidst the pandemic. Findings have implications for attorneys, child welfare workers, and other practitioners who directly and indirectly interface with child welfare-involved families.

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The impact of COVID-19 on child welfare-involved families: Implications for parent–child reunification and child welfare professionals

Goldberg

Brodzinsky

Singer

et al. 2021

Developmental Child Welfare

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“…12 relationship multidisciplinary legal representation. 233 All states should appoint lawyers to parents in family regulation cases at the first involvement of the state and the representation should be a multidisciplinary team. 234 Lawyers research, understand, and apply the law, while their clients supply the facts and personal knowledge that form the basis for their counsel's efforts.…”

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The New Jim and Jane Crow Intersect

Laroche

2022

CJRL

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Presently, the state does not enable counsel to effectively protect the parental rights of mothers who are incarcerated. While parents are incarcerated and their children are in the family regulation system, the New Jim Crow and New Jane Crow intersect to separate and destroy families. This Article adds to existing literature demonstrating how the New Jim Crow and New Jane Crow impose too many obstacles for parents' lawyers and shines a new light on the latent defects in the state's provision of access to appointed counsel.

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“…The Administration on Children, Youth, and Families (2017), Heimov et al(2017), Faller andVandervort (2007), Coleman (2001), Maschi (2017), andDeck (2016) echo this sentiment, while stressing the challenges in maintaining ethical practices within interdisciplinary partnerships and with balancing the differing perspectives of the respective professions. More recently, Gerber et al (2019) refers to the success of a law and social work interdisciplinary team approach for foster care cases. Gerber et al (2019) asserts that through providing higher quality services, an "interdisciplinary law office approach to parental representation may save millions of government dollars" (p. 52).…”

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“…More recently, Gerber et al (2019) refers to the success of a law and social work interdisciplinary team approach for foster care cases. Gerber et al (2019) asserts that through providing higher quality services, an "interdisciplinary law office approach to parental representation may save millions of government dollars" (p. 52).…”

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Michigan State University’s Chance at Childhood Program

Kozakiewicz

Pope²,

Battjes³

2020

ASW

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A key component of all graduate level social work programs is the field-based educational experience designed to provide students the opportunity to practice while under the supervision of both a field-based mentor and a faculty member within the school. Social work programs must develop and maintain ties with organizations and agencies within the community to facilitate a wide variety of options for students. Separately, social work schools are increasingly developing relationships with other professional schools, most often with law schools, to allow students to study from an interprofessional perspective. In this article, the authors review existing literature regarding social work interprofessional education, focusing on law and social work. The authors will describe Michigan State University’s School of Social Work Chance at Childhood Program, designed to train future social workers and lawyers from an interprofessional perspective in the classroom, in the field, and in a variety of community-based advocacy projects. Finally, the authors will discuss the results of preliminary research efforts designed to measure the program's effectiveness at achieving the program goals set forth in the program’s logic model.

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Effects of an interdisciplinary approach to parental representation in child welfare

Cited by 20 publications

References 22 publications

The impact of COVID-19 on child welfare-involved families: Implications for parent–child reunification and child welfare professionals

The impact of COVID-19 on child welfare-involved families: Implications for parent–child reunification and child welfare professionals

The New Jim and Jane Crow Intersect

Michigan State University’s Chance at Childhood Program

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