This document was printed from the website of the California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare (CEBC), which you can access at http://www.cachildwelfareclearinghouse.org/
This document was printed from the website of the California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare (CEBC), which you can access at http://www.cachildwelfareclearinghouse.org/
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You can also read why the Advisory Committee chose Parent Training as a topic area at the bottom of this page.
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See why Parent Training was selected by the Advisory Committee.
What is Parent Training as it relates to child welfare?
When children are determined to be the victims of abuse and neglect, county Child Welfare agencies are mandated to work with their families to remedy the conditions that have led to abuse and neglect. There are a limited number of types of services available to support families as they attempt to address the way that they relate to their children. One of these types of services is parent training, and that service is routinely prescribed to help families improve their parenting and reduce the risk of child abuse and neglect. When services are court-ordered, this service is almost universally cited as a prerequisite to the return of children to their parents' care and the dismissal of court dependency. In almost all active Child Welfare cases, parents are required to participate in didactic courses of education with some interactive components, using a wide variety of curricula. There are often more than one type of parent education service in each county, and parent education services differ from county to county.
Why Parent Training was chosen by the Advisory Committee?
Although in California the court routinely orders parent training as an essential component of the court ordered case plan, and counties almost universally employ this service to support parents as they attempt to improve their functioning, there is almost no evidence available to support the use of this service. Courts and counties are using this service blindly and they assume that by ordering parent training, child maltreatment is being reduced. It is critical for us to know what works for families. This service was chosen by the Advisory Committee because it is so widely used and because there are specific programs that have been studied, for which there is evidence of efficacy, and which are applicable to the Child Welfare population. If counties and courts are aware of what programs work in improving parent functioning they will be able to prescribe effective programs and avoid using programs that have no demonstrated positive impact on parental functioning.
Danna Fabella, Director
Children and Family Services,
Contra Costa County
Stuart Oppenheim, Executive Director
Child & Family Policy Institute of California
Deborah Reeves, Protective Services Worker
Health & Human Services Child Welfare Division
Humboldt County