- Title
- Beyond survival : strengthening community-based support for parents receiving a family service intervention
- Creator
- Goff, Rachel; Sadowski, Christina; Bagley, Kerryn
- Date
- 2023
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/195863
- Identifier
- vital:18594
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12979
- Identifier
- ISSN:1356-7500 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- This paper presents parents' experiences of community support and their recommendations for how their communities, and the services within them, might support their families. Generated through a human-centred design methodology and using a desire-centred framework, the findings suggest that parents receiving a family service require support invoking feelings of intimacy, trust, reciprocity, inclusivity, connection and belonging. Parents' recommendations for community support include addressing material and attitudinal constraints impacting on engagement with services; creating non-judgmental services tailored to their needs but accessed as a last resort; and creating peer-based opportunities to support each other. Parents reflect that moving beyond basic survival of risk and vulnerability to a position where thriving is possible requires purposeful integration of parent's existing and desired community into service interventions. Facilitating deliberate change at the intersection of community and service support is pertinent to current and future social work policy and practice. Wider opportunities for understanding and enabling the needs and aspirations of parents, which are often overlooked because of a focus on addressing risk and vulnerability, are considered. © 2022 The Authors. Child & Family Social Work published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Inc
- Relation
- Child and Family Social Work Vol. 28, no. 2 (2023), p. 491-502
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Rights
- Copyright © 2022 The Authors
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 4409 Social work; 5201 Applied and developmental psychology; Child and family social work; Community-based support; Family services; Neoliberalism; Vulnerable families
- Full Text
- Reviewed
- Funder
- The doctoral research from which this paper emanates was supported by the Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Stipend and RTP Fee‐Offset Scholarships through Federation University Australia. It was funded by Federation University Australia, the Victorian Department of Families, Fairness and Housing (DFFH) and the Central Highlands Family Services Alliance (CHFSA). Open access publishing facilitated by RMIT University, as part of the Wiley ‐ RMIT University agreement via the Council of Australian University Librarians.
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