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Safely Increasing Connection to Community-Based Services: A Study of Multidisciplinary Team Decision Making for Child Welfare Referrals
Child Maltreatment ( IF 3.950 ) Pub Date : 2021-02-08 , DOI: 10.1177/1077559521992127
Jaclyn E Chambers 1 , Joseph N Roscoe 1 , Jill Duerr Berrick 1 , Bridgette Lery 2 , Doug Thompson 2
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Initial child welfare screening decisions, traditionally made by an individual worker, determine if a family will receive further intervention by child protective services. A multi-disciplinary team (MDT) decision-making approach for child welfare referrals aims to provide a more thorough assessment of needs and strengths and to connect families to appropriate community-based providers. This study examined 159 child welfare referrals handled by MDTs compared to 331 referrals handled via the traditional screening approach. The study used a pseudo randomization procedure to assign referrals to the study conditions: Referrals logged on 2.5 days of the week were assigned to the treatment group; all others were assigned to the comparison group. Referrals handled by an MDT were more than four times as likely as those not handled by an MDT to be referred to community-based organizations (OR = 4.32, p < .001). There were no statistically significant differences in families’ engagement with community-based organizations or child welfare outcomes. MDTs are a promising step in the initial process of connecting families to services, although they did not affect this study’s longer-term outcomes.



中文翻译:

安全地增加与社区服务的联系:儿童福利转介的多学科团队决策研究

最初的儿童福利筛查决定传统上由个体工作者做出,它决定了一个家庭是否会接受儿童保护服务的进一步干预。儿童福利转介的多学科团队 (MDT) 决策方法旨在对需求和优势进行更全面的评估,并将家庭与适当的社区提供者联系起来。本研究检查了由 MDT 处理的 159 个儿童福利转介,与通过传统筛查方法处理的 331 个转介进行比较。该研究使用伪随机程序将转诊分配给研究条件:每周 2.5 天登录的转诊被分配给治疗组;所有其他人都被分配到对照组。= 4.32,p < .001)。家庭参与以社区为基础的组织或儿童福利结果没有统计学上的显着差异。MDT 在将家庭与服务联系起来的初始过程中是一个有希望的步骤,尽管它们不影响本研究的长期结果。

更新日期:2021-02-08
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