FAMILY TEAMING

Consensus - How to and Why - A brief guide to organizing your group with consensus proceedings. This is much easier, of course, with smaller groups, but can be quite easily done with larger groups if you have an attentive facilitator(s) and focused & willing participants.

CST Wisconsin Collaborative Systems of Care - Sponsored by White Pines Consulting Service, Inc., this website is meant to serve as a resource to service coordinators, project coordinators, coordinating committee members, families, and team members who are involved in or would like to learn more about involvement in collaborative systems of care. This is where you will find the Handbook for CST.

Family Team Converences in Domestic Violence Cases: Guidelines for Practice.

Handbook for Family Team Conferencing: Promoting Safe and Stable Families. This is good reference for the basics and includes good practice tips for effective conferencing.

Family Group Decision Making Project - Excellent website with definitions, bibliography, and best of all, Manual for Coordinators and Communitys

Iowa Family Team Meetings - Excellent site with lots of specific resources. Iowa is a national leader in doing family teaming.

The National Center on Family Group Decision Making - The National Center strives to build community capacity to implement high quality, effective family group decision making processes that are philosophically congruent with the central values and beliefs of this approach.

Practice Notes for North Carolina Child Welfare Workers; Child and Family Team Meetings in Child Welfare - Introduction to family conferences, some of the research on them, perspectives of people who know firsthand the challenges and benefits of these family-centered meetings.

Promising Results, Potential New Directions: International FGDM Research and Evaluation in Child Welfare - This publication contains a whole series of articles on the effectiveness of various forms of family teaming.

Solutions Through the Child and Famikly Team Process, The Child Welfare Policy and Practice Group - Excellent source with specific helpful tools including Functional Strengths Inventory and questions to help families identify faimly and informal supports. Note copyright information.