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The Family Development Matrix & Pathways to the Prevention of Child Abuse & Neglect, 2008-2011
Public/Private Partnerships in 13 California Counties The Institute for Community Collaborative Studies with its partners Strategies and the Office of Child Abuse Prevention created partnerships with 60 family support agencies in 13 counties to use our Family Development Matrix Model for Differential Response assessments to provide services with at-risk families. Each county implements a collaborative and community-directed prevention plan. It includes an intervention-based family support strategy and case management model. We train users of our Matrix Creator database to conduct family assessments, identify strengths and concerns, plan a family-directed empowerment strategy with interventions, and measure the impact of contributions from both the family and worker toward achieving family progress across a core set of measurement outcomes. In a recent partnership with Harvard University, ICCS managed the development of the Pathway to Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect. Developed by Lisbeth Schorr and Vicky Marchand, the Pathway is a knowledge base being used by federal and state agencies and is integrated in each of the 13 counties participating in the California project. The Pathway is an integral part of the FDM/Pathway project. Also, in June 2008, ICCS hosted a Prevention Conference to showcase the Pathway with 300 attendees from across the state. Click here to view FDM/Pathway official website. Project Description Relationship building makes a difference with family outcomes. The FDM/Pathway model looks at interventions (“services” and “practices”) that represent the relationship between the family support worker and the client family. We examine how changes in one part of life impacts other areas of family functioning and what the family and the family support worker each contribute to the change. The FDM/Pathway model (Matrix) uses a core set of outcome measures. The family worker conducts a baseline assessment and repeats the assessments with the client family for as long as they are engaged with the agency. Upon completion of an assessment the family support worker enters data into the ICCS web database. The Matrix database provides an analysis of family strengths and areas of concern facilitating the family support worker and client family to collaboratively develop a family empowerment plan with a common objective and activities for implementation. Both the family worker and client family often have different roles and perform separate activities when combining their resources toward the achievement of a collaboratively determined objective. To better understand the relationship between the family support worker and the client family and their mutual contribution to family progress, the FDM/Pathway evaluation conducts additional measures for family support worker and client family roles in their relationship. We have selected “Home Visiting” as an intervention that is commonly used across the 13 California county public/private partnerships participating in the FDM/Pathway Project. Based on interviews with family support agencies and an examination of the home visiting literature, we have constructed a common set of family worker roles for engaging the client family through the FDM/Pathway protocol. They include building a relationship, intake, assessment, case management and closure. Process steps for the family and worker to implement the FDM/Pathway model
For additional information contact: Jerry Endres, M.S.W.
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