When concerns about child safety and wellbeing are substantiated, decisions are made in the context of the options available—child(ren) remaining supported within family, short-term removal with a plan for return home when parental issues are addressed, or permanent care placement. In New Zealand, families facing possible removal experience multiple challenges including poverty, family violence, parental mental health and substance abuse issues and historical and inter-generational trauma. Lack of resources to facilitate the intensive intervention needed to address such complexity increases the risk that removal is seen as the only way to ensure safety. Criticism of increasing removal rates for young children with significant over-representation of indigenous children has led to allocation of funding to establish Intensive Intervention services. New Zealand has a history of importing ‘evidence-based’ models from other countries. A review of what is currently known about intensive intervention with families where there is risk of a child removal was undertaken to explore the challenges that might arise in our bi- and multi-cultural environment. Critical factors for effective intervention are discussed before concluding with consideration of implications for other countries with histories of colonization and culturally diverse populations.

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对面临多重复杂挑战的家庭进行强化干预：在双文化和多元文化背景下替代搬迁儿童？

当对儿童安全和福祉的担忧得到证实时，将在可用选项的背景下做出决定 - 儿童继续留在家庭中，短期搬迁并计划在父母问题得到解决后返回家园，或永久护理安置. 在新西兰，可能面临搬迁的家庭面临多重挑战，包括贫困、家庭暴力、父母心理健康和药物滥用问题以及历史和代际创伤。缺乏资源来促进解决这种复杂性所需的密集干预增加了移除被视为确保安全的唯一途径的风险。对土著儿童人数过多的幼儿的移除率增加的批评导致分配资金以建立强化干预服务。新西兰有从其他国家进口“循证”模型的历史。对目前已知的对存在儿童搬迁风险的家庭进行强化干预的情况进行了审查，以探讨我们的双文化和多元文化环境中可能出现的挑战。在结束之前讨论了有效干预的关键因素，并考虑了对具有殖民历史和文化多样化人口的其他国家的影响。