Bringing Family to the Table: Tips and Techniques for Effective Family Engagement

The brief describes current practice in the sites and identifies promising techniques, common challenges, and potential solutions to engaging family members and/or other important people in the child’s life. This is the third brief in a series summarizing findings from Child Trends’ evaluations of the family finding model. The first two briefs are Family Finding: Does Implementation Differ When Serving Different Child Welfare Populations? and Piecing Together the Puzzle: Tips and Techniques for Effective Discovery in Family Finding.