Bibliograph

Children living in transition, helping homeless and foster care children and families, Cheryl Zlotnick, editor

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Label

Children living in transition, helping homeless and foster care children and families, Cheryl Zlotnick, editor

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Children living in transition

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

911190829

Responsibility statement

Cheryl Zlotnick, editor

Sub title

helping homeless and foster care children and families

Summary

Sharing the daily struggles of children and families residing in transitional situations (homelessness or because of risk of homelessness, being connected with the child welfare system, or being new immigrants in temporary housing), this text recommends strategies for delivering mental health and intensive case-management services that maintain family integrity and stability. Based on work undertaken at the Center for the Vulnerable Child in Oakland, California, which has provided mental health and intensive case management to children and families living in transition for more than two d

Table Of Contents

Theories of practice with transitional families -- Transitional families : Where do I begin? / Cheryl Zlotnick and Luann DeVoss -- "We don't get whuppings here anymore" : toward a collaborative, ecological model of parenting / Marguerite A. Wright -- Giving voice : an exploration of the integration of social justice and infant mental health / Erica Torres and Kathryn Orfirer -- Preparing the organization for its work with transitional families -- Letting some air into the room : opening agency space for considerations of culture and power / Lisa R. Berndt -- Rediscovering positive work relationships within a diverse relationship-based organization : serving children in transition / Karen Thomas -- Promising programs and culturally informed interventions -- Transforming shame : allowing memories in foster care to inform interventions with foster youth / Lou Felipe -- Crossing the border and facing the system : challenges immigrant families experience when a child is removed from their care and placed into the child welfare system / Rosario Murga-Kusnir -- "I am bad!" / Roberto Macias Sanchez -- "When do I get to go home?" / Peggy Pearson -- The CATS project : helping families land on their feet / Vance Hitchner -- Needs for the future -- A systems dilemma : intergenerational foster care and homelessness / Cheryl Zlotnick

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