Center for Advanced Studies School of Social Work in Child Welfare o a comprehensiveCW look at a360 prevalent child welfare issue Safety Permanency Well-Being Attending to Well-Being in Child Welfare Spring 2014 2 CW360o Attending to Well-Being in Child Welfare • Spring 2014 From the Editors A predominant theme throughout all issues of CW360° is one of well-being. We have Register for CASCW’s 15th annual free child welfare conference covered different aspects of well-being over the Registration available through Monday, April 28, 2014 past five years across various issues, including disability, trauma, developmental practice Attending to Well-Being approaches, permanency, relationships, and in Child Welfare secondary trauma. In this, the tenth issue of CW360°, we cover the full spectrum of well- May 6, 2014: 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. being issues. While we recognize that there North Star Ballroom, St. Paul Student Center, continues to be a philosophical discourse as University of Minnesota to whether or not—or in which ways—well- Attend the conference in person, by For more information and being falls within child welfare’s scope of individual web stream at a personal to register, please follow practice, we believe it is critical to bring those computer, or by group web stream at an this link: discussions to the forefront. As segments of http://z.umn.edu/wellbeingcw the field take more purposeful approaches in off-site location. Off-site participants are both practice and policy to addressing issues encouraged to email, Tweet, or Facebook of well-being, practitioners and administrators questions during the program. struggle with how to interpret and integrate research, policies, and practices focused on http://z.umn.edu/wellbeingcw child well-being. In recent years, through the leadership of Bryan Samuels and the Administration on is the variety of ways in which well-being is make more space for additional content. You Children, Youth and Families (ACYF), child defined. This comes after decades of including can find a full listing of the citations welfare professionals have started to come ‘well-being’ in practice and performance in PDF format on our website at together to define concepts, frameworks, goals yet failing to define or hold ourselves http://z.umn.edu/2014cw360. roles, and responsibilities related to child accountable to achieving meaningful Another way to join the conversation well-being in the field of child welfare. As we outcomes in this area. on this topic, as well as other challenging have come to better understand the impact CW360° is divided into three sections: questions facing the child welfare system of trauma on our work and moved toward overview, practice, and perspectives. In the today, is through our Child Welfare Video implementing trauma-informed systems of overview section, articles focus on exploring Wall (http://z.umn.edu/videowall). Several care, we recognize that if we only attend to frameworks of well-being and ways in which child welfare stakeholders have recorded safety and permanency we leave the lifelong we define and measure well-being concepts, their thoughts about what well-being means impacts of trauma unattended. Working with including cultural considerations. The to them. Take a look through some of their children and youth is inclusive of all aspects of practice section highlights evidence-informed videos and then take 90 seconds to record their lives, not just the safety and security of and promising practices in the field. Lastly, your own reflections and ideas! their bodies but also their minds and spirits. the perspectives section presents articles We invite readers to join CASCW staff This issue of CW360° is dedicated to from a variety of child welfare stakeholders and CW360° contributors Bryan Samuels, exploring holistic views of well-being with highlighting innovative examples of practice Terry Cross, Amelia Frank-Meyer, and a strong emphasis on addressing unresolved implementation, organizational change, and the Nathan and Christy Hough for our full- trauma as a key to better outcomes for personal impact of addressing the whole child. day conference on child well-being on May children, youth, and families. Throughout We have provided you with information 6, 2014, beginning at 9:00 AM. A panel this publication you will find research, and tools throughout this publication that including local and national experts on child policy, and practice strategies that reflect the will help you apply the research, practice, well-being will react and interact with our emerging aspects of this work today. and perspectives to your own work settings keynote speakers on localized impact and As in previous editions, the preparation and identify opportunities to apply this new application of their work. The conference for this issue of CW360° began with an learning. Please refer to the discussion can be viewed via web stream from any extensive literature review and exploration guide at the end of the publication to location. The conference will also be archived of best practices in the field. Then, CASCW help start discussions with workers and and available for viewing after its conclusion. staff and editors engaged with individuals administrators at your agency. Additionally, To access registration information or the who emerged as leaders in or who had a we have removed the reference section from web stream archive of the event, visit the unique contribution to the issue’s topic. One the printed editions of CW360° in order to conference webpage at http://z.umn.edu/ challenge to framing the topic of well-being wellbeingcw. Traci LaLiberte, PhD Tracy Crudo, MSW Executive Director, Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare Director of Outreach, Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare Executive Editor, CW360o Managing Editor, CW360° From the Editors From CW360o Attending to Well-Being in Child Welfare • Spring 2014 3 Table of Contents Table Table of Contents Overview Queen of Peace Center’s Family EMPOWERment Project: An Innovative Program for Fostering Well-Being in Infants Well-Being: Federal Attention and Implications and Young Children of Mothers With Addictions Bryan Samuels & Clare Anderson ......................................................4 Debra Zand, PhD, Rosalie Dickens, Lara Pennington, MSW, Defining and Measuring Child Well-Being Jerri Michael, BS, Donna McNamara, & Katherine Pierce, PhD .....26 Annette Semanchin Jones, PhD & Traci LaLiberte, PhD ...................6 Supportive Housing as a Meaningful Solution to Family and Child Homelessness The Relational Worldview and Child Well-Being Richard A. Hooks Wayman, Ben Van Hunnik, & Kelby Grovender ...27 Terry L. Cross, MSW, ACSW, LCSW ....................................................8 What Makes the Difference? Factors Associated With Cross-System Challenges With a Well-Being Focus in Child Achieving Well-Being When Children Have Experienced Welfare: On the Way to Fixing What’s Broken Complex Trauma JooYeun Chang, JD ...........................................................................10 Jane Gilgun, PhD, LICSW ..................................................................28 The Child Indicators Movement Asher Ben-Arieh, PhD ......................................................................12 Perspective Practical Ways to Promote Well-Being Among Impacts of Using Data to Report on Child Well-Being Traumatized Children in the Child Welfare System Sinead Hanafin, PhD .........................................................................13 Sharon Webb-Jackson, BSW ............................................................29 The Educational Well-Being of Children Involved New Mexico’s Well-Being Checklists: in Child Protection Practical Tools for Addressing Well-Being Kristine Piescher, PhD & Traci LaLiberte, PhD ...............................14 Beth Ann Gillia, JD, MA .....................................................................30 The Developmental Impact of Adverse Childhood Cooperative Adoption Experiences Across the Life Course Peter Kenny ......................................................................................31 Nikki Kovan, PhD & Rob Anda, PhD .................................................15 CASA Advocates’ Role in Promoting the Well-Being Creating Effective Organizational Social Contexts of Children in Foster Care Anthony Hemmelgarn, PhD & Charles Glisson, PhD .......................16 Barbara Morgen ................................................................................32 Practice One Size Does NOT Fit All A Three-Branch Approach to Improving Jen Hope ...........................................................................................33 Well-Being Outcomes for Kids in Foster Care Protecting the Well-Being of Immigrant Children Alexandra Cawthorne & Meghan Wills .............................................17 and Families Creating a Coalition to Foster Family Well-Being Wendy Cervantes ..............................................................................34 Anthony Biglan, PhD .........................................................................18 Promoting the Well-Being of African American ACF 2012 Trauma Grants: An Overview and Other At-Risk Children in Child Protection Joyce Pfennig, PhD ...........................................................................19 Carla M. Curtis, MSW, PhD ...............................................................35 Connecticut’s Cross-System Approach to Building a Healing Home Heal Traumatized Children