National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center : Information & Resources : Shared Family Care : Journal Articles

The Source - Spring 2008
This issue focuses on economic self-sufficiency for families affected by HIV and/or substance abuse. More...

Strengthening Connections Conference Archive
This conference highlighted the unique parenting challenges among families affected by substance abuse, HIV and/or incarceration, and the importance of the parent-child relationship in a child’s development. More...

2008 Teleconference Training Series
The Resource Center will host six trainings beginning in April 2008. The topics include the effects of methamphetamine, mental health services for women living with HIV and their children, and working with Latino families. More...

Assessing and Supporting Parenting in Families Affected by Substance Abuse or HIV (2007)
This guidebook provides practitioners and administrators with guidance in assessing, supporting, and strengthening parenting skills and parent-child relationships. [PDF]

National Abandoned Infants
Assistance Resource Center
University of California, Berkeley
1950 Addison Street, Suite 104 # 7402
Berkeley, CA 94720-7402
Phone: (510) 643-8390
Fax: (510) 643-7019
E-mail: aia@berkeley.edu

Shared Family Care
An Alternative to Conventional Services
for Children and Families At Risk

Journal articles

Bernstein, N. (January/February 2004). Family reunions. Hope Magazine, p. 24-27.

Bower, A. (2003, February 17). Sharing family values. Time, 161(7), pp.62-63.

Price, A. & Schmidbauer, S. (2003). Parenting immersion through shared family care. The Source, 21-24. [PDF of Fall 2003 issue of The Source]

Price, A. & Wichterman, L. (2003). Shared Family Care: Fostering the whole family to promote safety and stability. Journal of Family Social Work, Special Issue on Child & Family Well-Being, 35-54.

Simmel, C. & Price, A. (2002). The shared family care demonstration project: Challenges of implementing and evaluating a community-based project. Children and Youth Services Review, Special Issue on Child Welfare Evaluation.

Price, A. (2001, September/October). Promising practices: Mentors share homes, teach life skills to at-risk families. [Electronic version]. Children’s Bureau Express, 2(5).

Barth, R.P., Price, A., & Simmel, C. (2000). Caring for the whole family to keep the family whole. Children’s Voice, 9 (1), 24-27.

Barth, R.P. & Price, A. (1999). Shared family care: Providing services to parents and children placed together in out-of-home care. Child Welfare, LXXVIII, 88-107.

Price, A. & Barth, R.P. (1997). Shared Family Care: Child protection without parent-child separation. Protecting Children, 13(3), 15-16.

Williams, L.M. & Barnyard, V.L. (1995). A New Life: An evaluation of a family reunification and child abuse prevention program for crack-addicted women and their children. Philadelphia, PA: Crime Prevention Association of Pennsylvania

Barth, R.P. (1994). Shared family care: Child protection and family preservation. Social Work, 39 (5), 515-524.

Barth, R.P. (1994, Spring) Shared foster family care. The Source, 4 (1), pp.10-12.

Nelson, K.M. (1992). Foster care… Not just for kids anymore: Use of whole family placement to reunite substance abusing parents and their children. The Source, 5 (1), 3-5, 12.

Nelson, K.M. (1992). Fostering homeless children and their parents too: The emergence of whole-family foster care. Child Welfare, LXXI, (6), 575-584.

Cornish, J. (1992). Fostering homeless children and their parents too: A unique approach to transitional housing for homeless families. Community Alternatives: International Journal of Family Care, 4 (2), 43-59.