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Family Support Work–The Alys Key Family Case Model–*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Wendy O'Brien
Wendy O'Brien*
Affiliation:
Alys Key Family Centre, Melbourne
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Alys Key Family Care is a Family Support agency that aims to facilitate change within families experiencing severe problems in rearing their children, so that parents are empowered to take control and responsibility for rearing their children adequately. The Centre was established by the Children's Protection Society (after the Society ceased to run the Victorian welfare-based Protective Service) as a 3-year Demonstration Project with a built-in research component. The research has not only enabled testing of the overall effectiveness of the service in meeting its stated goals, but has created a climate of questioning of practice within the area of Family Support.

Type
Focus on Prevention
Information
Children Australia , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , 1988 , pp. 22 - 26
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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Footnotes

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An earlier version of this paper was presented at a seminar on Prevention - Focus on Family Support, Children's Bureau of Australia and St Anthony's Family Service, 1988.

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