Parenting Support

Families will require support when faced with problems they are unable to overcome on their own. Ideally support should come from existing networks, such as extended family, religious leaders, and neighbours. Where such support is not available or sufficient, additional family and community services are required. Such services are particularly important for kinship, foster and adoptive caretakers, and child headed households in order to prevent separation and address abuse and exploitation of children. It is also vital for children affected by HIV/AIDS and armed conflict, and those children living on the street.

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Davielle Lakind & Marc S. Atkins - Children and Youth Services Review,

This article presents evidence for innovative service models from within and outside of the parenting literature that provide support to individuals and families in communities of poverty, highlighting aspects of service models that align with the needs of high poverty families.

Moïra Mikolajczak, Maria Elena Brianda, Hervé Avalosse, Isabelle Roskam - Child Abuse & Neglect,

This study aims to facilitate further identification of the consequences of parental burnout for the parents themselves, their spouses and their child(ren).

Catholic Relief Services,

This video from Catholic Relief Services provides an overview of the Mothers and Babies Course.

Elizabeth Wall-Wieler, Leslie L Roos, Nathan C Nickel, Dan Chateau, Marni Brownell - American Journal of Epidemiology,

This study examines whether mothers who had a child taken into care by child protection services have higher mortality rates compared with rates seen in their biological sisters who did not have a child taken into care.

Junhan Cho, Dayoung Bae, Darcey D. Terris, Rachael E. Glisson, Anita Brown - Child & Family Social Work,

The current study examined family and community factors related to home visiting programme engagement in a sample of 1,024 mothers (primary caregivers, mean age 22.89 years) who participated in family support programmes funded through the US state of Georgia's Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting programme.

Stina Krogh Petersen - Child & Family Social Work,

This article contributes to a growing body of research that takes the user perspective as its point of departure when conducting research in social work to examine how parents perceive and experience child protection practice.

David Wilkins, Amy Lynch, Vivi Antonopoulou - Child & Family Social Work,

In this study, using paired observations of group supervision and family meetings alongside interviews with parents, the authors explored the link between supervision, practice, and engagement.

Esmeranda Manful & Ebenezer Cudjoe - Child & Family Social Work,

This paper asks the question "what contribution are kin and other informal social support networks providing to the care and safety of children of such families?" The paper presents findings from 15 families receiving services from the Department of Social Welfare in Sekondi, Ghana.

Barbara H. Chaiyachati, Julie R. Gaither, Marcia Hughes, Karen Foley-Schain, John M. Leventhal - Child Abuse & Neglect,

The objective of this study was to assess the impact of voluntary participation in an established statewide home-visiting program for socially high-risk families on child maltreatment as identified by Child Protective Services (CPS). 

Child Family Community Australia (CFCA),

This webinar from Child Family Community Australia (CFCA) was recorded on 14 March 2018. It explored the implications of recent research on women's and children’s experiences of family violence and inter-parental conflict.