Peer Mentors: Alliances at Work (Spring 2010 issue of The Source)

When parents are separated from their children, the
experience often engenders profound feelings of anxiety;
parents may feel isolated from family and friends, and
their sense of hopelessness may interfere with their
capacity to engage in services and to fight for reunification
(Frame, Conley, & Berrick, 2006). Recent changes in child
welfare practice have brought parents into the planning
process, giving them voice to help structure the case plan,
to identify appropriate alternative caregivers, and to
identify natural and informal helpers (Kemp, Marcenko,
Hoagwood, & Vesneski, 2009). These are welcome adjustments,
and they reflect child welfare’s ongoing commitment
to develop more family-centered practice strategies
that address parents’ needs.

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