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Wisconsin. Family Teaming: Family Group Decision Making Links for Western Wisconsin Partnership for Children and Families. (2009) pp. 1-1

Western Wisconsin
Partnership
For Children and Families

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

FOR TRAINERS 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
LIBRARIES 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.
LINKS This is where you will find the Handbook for CST.

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

TRANSFER OF Handbook for Family Team Conferencing: Promoting Safe and Stable Families. This
LEARNING is good reference for the basics and includes good practice tips for effective conferencing.
MATERIALS
Family Group Decision Making Project - Excellent website with definitions,
bibliography, and best of all, Manual for Coordinators and Communitys
Western Wisconsin Partnership Iowa Family Team Meetings - Excellent site with lots of specific resources. Iowa is a
Social Work Program national leader in doing family teaming.
University of Wisconsin-River Falls
B26 WEB The National Center on Family Group Decision Making - The National Center strives
410 S. 3rd Street to build community capacity to implement high quality, effective family group decision
River Falls, WI 54022 making processes that are philosophically congruent with the central values and beliefs of
Phone: 715-425-0612 this approach.
Fax: 715-425-3800
www.uwrf.edu/wwpartnership 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.

University of Wisconsin - River Falls

410 South Third Street River Falls, WI USA 54022-5001 (715)425-3911
Copyright © 1995-2009 University of Wisconsin-River Falls
 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.

University of Wisconsin - River Falls

410 South Third Street River Falls, WI USA 54022-5001 (715)425-3911
Copyright © 1995-2009 University of Wisconsin-River Falls