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Collaborative Service Delivery: Catalyst to Innovation in Policy and Practice in Alberta, Canada

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Re-Visioning Public Health Approaches for Protecting Children

Part of the book series: Child Maltreatment ((MALT,volume 9))

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Canadian child welfare jurisdictions have endeavoured to address the needs of children and families at risk in a manner that keeps pace with the changing Canadian population and context. Since 2000, Alberta, a Western Canadian province, has been an active leader in addressing these legislative, policy and practice challenges. Collaborative Service Delivery (CSD) is one recent, and well documented example of practice change developed in Alberta, and this initiative will be the primary focus of this chapter (Brodziak J, Alberta Asso Serv Child Fam J 3:19–25, 2010; Gardiner S, Hachkowski A, J Serv Child Fam 4(Spring):16–21, 2011; Gardiner S, MacLaurin B, Reeves J, Outcome-based service delivery (OBSD): the process and outcomes of collaboration. In: Badry D, Fuchs D, Montgomery H, McKay S (eds) Reinvesting in families: strengthening child welfare practice for a brighter future: voices from the prairies. University of Regina Press, Regina, 2014). This chapter reviews the historical legislation, policy and practice in Canada and Alberta, emerging and promising child intervention initiatives in Alberta, the larger context of the child intervention practice framework, and the lessons learned from policy and practice changes in Alberta.

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  1. ALIGN Association of Community Services, Edmonton, AB, Canada

    Rhonda Barraclough

  2. Child and Youth Services Division, Ministry of Human Services, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Kim Spicer

  3. Policy, Practice and Program Development, Ministry of Children’s Services, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Joni Brodziak

  4. MacEwan University, Edmonton, AB, Canada

    Kassidy Green

  5. Intern with the Policy, Practice and Program Development for Child Intervention, Ministry of Children’s Services, Edmonton, AB, Canada

    Kassidy Green

  6. Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Bruce MacLaurin

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Barraclough, R., Spicer, K., Brodziak, J., Green, K., MacLaurin, B. (2019). Collaborative Service Delivery: Catalyst to Innovation in Policy and Practice in Alberta, Canada. In: Lonne, B., Scott, D., Higgins, D., Herrenkohl, T.I. (eds) Re-Visioning Public Health Approaches for Protecting Children. Child Maltreatment, vol 9. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05858-6_24

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