Factors Contributing to Success and Failure in Family Based Child Welfare Services: Executive Summary prepared by the National Resource Center on Family Based Services, The University of Iowa, 1988

(1988) Factors Contributing to Success and Failure in Family Based Child Welfare Services: Executive Summary prepared by the National Resource Center on Family Based Services, The University of Iowa, 1988. Human Services, Department of (Health and Human Services, Department of)

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Abstract

This monograph presents an overview of findings from the final report of the two-year federally funded research study: "An Analysis of Factors Contributing to Failure in Eleven Family-based Service Programs." It begins with an introduction to family-based services and to the research study; section two provides descriptive information derived from a survey of 90 social workers employed by the participating agencies during the period under study and offers a structural typology of family-based programs based on these data. The third section discusses indicators of success and failure in family-based services; the fourth provides descriptive information about the families in the study; the fifth summarizes the family and service characteristics related to case outcome; and the sixth section offers conclusions and implications for practice.