Publications from ODSW Social Insights: Letters by DSW (Vol 1) | Página 103

Family-Centred Practice

# Identifying with the team family-specific natural support.
# Addressing the power imbalances and this may be between family groups
and staff of protection services.
# Ensuring that children/ youths/ older persons/ families are respected and
heard during the meeting.
• Ensuring follow-up
# Partnering with the family in the follow-up of their plan.
# Being aware of the range of services and supports and their effectiveness.
# Collaborating
# Engaging and organizing the informal and professional support and
service agencies in the families’ lives to be part of the family’s plan.
Team members, other than the facilitator, must play their roles in the team
as well. They need to have the skills to listen, contribute to the meetings,
participate collaboratively, and offer follow-up assistance with families.
3. Skills needed to conduct assessments, develop service plans and
engage in purposeful interventions with children, youths, older persons
and families.
To conduct strengths-based family assessments, develop individualized
service plans, and intervene effectively, social workers will need strong skills
in interviewing, analyzing, documenting, collaboration and follow-up. These
skills will vary greatly from one family to the next and from one situation to
the next. For example, they may range from finding a placement in a school
to changing a deeply embedded, multi-generational pattern of thinking and
behaving.
• Interviewing Skills
# Engaging the family in a trust-based relationship and shared decisionmaking.

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