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Intensive Family Services in Australia: A ‘snapshot’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 February 2016

Lynda Campbell
Lynda Campbell*
Affiliation:
School of Social Work, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

This paper reports a survey of 21 Intensive Family Services programs, members of the Intensive Family Services National Practice Symposium. The survey was designed to elicit a ‘snapshot’ of program models, operational issues and policy matters within these services, in order to consolidate some understanding of the evolution of Intensive Family Preservation Services since the developments of the early 1990s.

Type
Research Article
Information
Children Australia , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , 2004 , pp. 4 - 11
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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