Family group conferencing: new directions in community-centered child and family practice

General Introduction: Family Group Conference Programming / Gale Burford and Joe Hudson

Sect. I. Introduction: Origins and Philosophical Framework

1. Searching for the Roots of Conferencing / Rupert Ross

2. Family Group Conferencing: Cultural Origins, Sharing, and Appropriation - A Maori Reflection / Catherine Love

3. Democracy, Community, and Problem Solving / John Braithwaite

4. Conferencing and the Community / Kay Pranis

5. Guiding Principles of the Conferencing Process / David Moore and John McDonald

Sect. II. Introduction: Practice Frameworks

6. Family Group Conferences as "Good" Child Welfare Practice / Anthony N. Maluccio and Judith Daly

7. Family Group Conferencing as Person-Environment Practice / Susan P. Kemp, James K. Whittaker and Elizabeth M. Tracy

8. Restorative Practices with High-Risk Youth / Ted Wachtel

9. Family Group Conference Connections: Shared Problems and Solutions / Paul Nixon

10. Bringing the Community Back In: Patch and Family Group Decision-Making / Paul Adams

11. Establishing Shared Responsibility for Child Welfare through Peacemaking Circles / Kay Pranis and Barry Stuart

12. Social Network Theory, Research, and Practice: Implications for Family Group Conferencing / Don Fuchs

13. Wraparound Process with Children and Families / John D. Burchard and Sara N. Burchard

14. "Just Therapy" with Families and Communities / Charles Waldegrave

15. Making Action Plans in Vermont / Jennifer L. Boland, Cynthia M. Collea and Judith Daly / [et al.]

16. Family Group Decision-Making and Family Violence / Joan Pennell and Gale Burford

Sect. III. Introduction: Comparative Practices

17. Conferencing in New Zealand: Child Protection / Mike Doolan and Pam Phillips

18. Family Group Conferences in Sweden / Knut Sundell

19. Conferencing in England and Wales / Peter Marsh and Gill Crow

20. Evolution of Conferencing within Child Welfare in Northern Ireland / Linda Crozier

21. Diversions and Departures in the Implementation of Family Group Conferencing in the United States / Lisa Merkel-Holguin

22. Family Group Conferences in Four Australian States / Paul Ban

23. Implementing and Evaluating Family Group Conferences: The New South Wales Experience / Judy Cashmore and Patricia Kiely

24. Initiating Conferencing: Community Practice Issues / Joan Pennell and Marie Weil

25. Family Decision Process: Healing the Fractured Relationship / Paul M. Sivak, Nathaniel Green and Teri Kook

26. Family Group Decision-Making in Oregon / Ted Keys and Anna Rockhill

Sect. IV. Introduction: Evaluating Family Group Conferences

27. Restorative Conferencing and Theory-Based Evaluation / Gordon Bazemore and Jeanne B. Stinchcomb

28. Data Collection in a Family Group Conference Evaluation Project / Yvonne Unrau, Jackie Sieppert and Joe Hudson

29. Families as Resources: The Washington State Family Group Conference Project / William Vesneski and Susan Kemp

30. Evaluating and Implementing Family Group Conferences: The Family and Community Compact in Kent County, Michigan / David Crampton and Wendy Lewis Jackson.