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Family Preservation Practice and Empowerment

Research on Empowerment in Family Preservation Practice

MacEachron, Gustavsson, Cross and Lewis (1996) discussed family preservation practice and empowerment as it relates to the effectiveness of the Indian Welfare Act of 1978. The term "empowerment" was conceptually defined by the authors as the ability of the tribe to self-determine their own welfare policies and practices. It was noted that the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) extended tribal self-determination policy to include child welfare and family preservation issues, the Act being a response to the large numbers of Indian children removed from their families and placed in non-Indian settings.

Of interest to MacEachron, Gustavsson, Cross and Lewis (1996)

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mpetent social workers. She notes that Asian families receiving family preservation services are greatly in need of culturally competent caseworkers. Fong is particularly concerned with providing guidelines for culturally competent family preservation practice as well as fostering among workers an understanding of how empowerment and shared partnership may take place in ways appropriate to an Asian cultural perspective. Toward the foregoing objectives, Fong (1994) outlines Asian family values and analyzes areas of potential ill fit with family preservation values. Three kinds of information are described that practitioners ought to know to serve Asian American clients effectively. It is stated that simply knowing this small amount of information will strongly improve the power (effectiveness) of caseworkers. Families receiving family preservation services are required to make a number of changes. Cole, Hammond and Tucker (1989) report that families may be considered to be empowered by services to the extent that they are able to successfully make the changes required of them. However, according to the authors, the caseloads of many social workers are so large that they cannot visit families to check on whether they are ma
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