ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes a typology of the innovative service models, and presents some examples of family support and other preventive programs in child welfare. It presents a more detailed typology of family support services to lay a foundation for highlighting some promising family support programs appropriate for the children and parent served by child welfare services. Family-centered services such as family support services, wraparound services, Family-Based Services (FBS), and Intensive Family Preservation Services (IFPS) represent some of the fastest growing program areas in child welfare, mental health, and juvenile justice. Within the broad framework of family support or FBS programs there is wide variation across the nation in the kind of interventions, size of caseloads, and components of service that characterize the programs. The programs described using more specific terms such as family support, family preservation, family-based, family-centered, home-based, and placement prevention services, the term family support used an umbrella under which clusters a broad range of family-based services programs.
