Since 1990, the Center for Family Studies has developed the following items. Except for the newsletter, Links, all of these materials have been funded by grants from the Ohio Department of Mental Health. Please contact the Center if you are interested in learning more about any of them.

Newsletter

Links is intended to inform colleagues, clients, and students of opportunities, developments, and information on family issues. It has usually been published twice each year and the next issue will be available on the Center's website.

Publications

Case Management for Children and Families edited by Beth Dague, Bonnie Pitzer, and Thelma Coss, The University of Akron, 1999. Forthcoming. Volume I has a resource guide for learning case management techniques, while Volume II has readings which illuminate the principles of case management.

Home-Based Intervention: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Programming and Research edited by Helen K. Cleminshaw, The University of Akron, 1993. A collection of home-based intervention articles promoting local systems of care which are child centered, with the needs of the child and family dictating the types and mix of services provided.

Proceedings of the Annual Institutes for Home-Based Intervention edited by Helen K. Cleminshaw, The University of Akron. These institutes were presented by the Center for Family Studies in cooperation with the Ohio Association for Family-Based Services and the Ohio Department of Mental Health. The three proceedings are transcriptions of audiotapes of the speeches and workshops. They are only available for the following years.

The Sixth Annual Institute, June 17-18, 1993

From Problems to Solutions focused on a five-step model that was developed by Insoo Kim Berg, MSSW. She is the director and cofounder of the Brief Family Therapy Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and her day-long presentation was entitled "Introduction to Solution-Focused Therapy."

The luncheon speaker on the first day was Cliff Davis, Chief of the Office of Children's Services for the Ohio Department of Mental Health. He described the reality of how our service system is constructed as well as the ideal picture of how it could function if we worked to restructure the system by basing our actions on love for each other.

The Friday morning speaker was Ray Guarendi, PhD, who is a clinical psychologist specializing in parenting and childhood problems. His talk was aptly entitled "Laughter: The Sanity of Discipline," and his wit and perspective on parenting enabled his audience to laugh at many of the abnormal things they normally have to face.

The Seventh Annual Institute, June 9-10, 1994

Multisystemic Therapy and Multicultural Issues began with Scott W. Henggeler, PhD, whose presentation was made on the first day and was entitled "Family Preservation Using Multisystemic Therapy: Long Term Guidelines with Serious Juvenile Offenders." There were three parts to the presentation: Causal Models of Delinquency, Guidelines for Intervening, and Case Examples of Family Preservation. Henggeler is a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina. Much of his research concerns antisocial behavior in adolescence and the development of effective treatments for such behavior.

The luncheon speaker was Jeannette Harrison, Chief of System Development and Training at the Ohio Department of Mental Health. She described some of the changes which would be taking place in the treatment of home-based intervention because of funding changes in managed care.

The Eighth Annual Institute, May 12, 1995

Bread and Spirit was the name given to the eighth institute's proceedings, although the full title of the institute address given by Harry J. Aponte, ACSW, was "Bread and Spirit in the Low-Income Minority Family." Bread and Spirit is also the name of a book recently authored by Aponte which addresses ethnicity, culture, and spirituality in therapy with families, particularly today's poor. Aponte is a gifted teacher who conducted two live interviews during the day. He was also was a speaker at the first annual institute in 1988.

A Practitioner's Guide to Home-Based Services: A Resource Manual developed and edited by the Training Committee of the Ohio Association for Family-Based Services: Pamela Anders Cibik, Selma L. Gwatkin, Carol A. Pastore, and Richard N. Shepler, The University of Akron, 1991. A resource guide for home-based practitioners who attend the training sessions developed by the Ohio Association for Family-Based Services and the classes presented by the Center for Family Studies. It has twelve units concentrating on particular training goals as well as a section of Required Readings which are basic to understanding home-based services.

Videotapes

In 1996, the Center produced the videotape Innovative Mental Health: Community and Home-Based Interventions. This shares the important core principles and rationale of the Center's Interdisciplinary Certificate in Home-Based Intervention.

· In 1998, the Center filmed a video about Case Management for Children and Families. It should be ready for distribution in the spring of 1999.

The Center is also beginning work on a video about mediation.

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During the fall of 1996, the Center for Family Studies produced a 45-minute video in collaboration with the Ohio Department of Mental Health. Entitled Innovative Mental Health: Community and Home-Based Intervention, the video contains the important core principles and rationale of the graduate and undergraduate Interdisciplinary Certificate in Community and Home-Based Intervention which was developed by the Center.

This certificate program is the first curriculum of its kind to be developed and implemented in the United States. It is designed so students from various disciplines such as child and family development, psychology, marriage and family therapy, social work, education, and nursing can incorporate a sequence of community and home-based courses within their regular degree program.

When the final editing of the video was completed, it was shared, along with evaluation forms and surveys, with over fifty state-supported universities and colleges in Ohio. It is the center's hope that the tape will be shown in classes studying family-related topics either this semester/quarter or the next.

Innovative Mental Health: Community and Home-Based Intervention is held together by the insight and commentary of Helen Cleminshaw, the center's director. The video is divided into three parts. Part One was shot in a studio and provides perspective into the use of community and home-based interventions. "Overview and Rationale" begins with Cleminshaw introducing the video and then entering into a dialogue with Rick Shepler, Instructor for the center's home-based program. "The Service Provider's Perspective" expands the dialogue between Cleminshaw and Shepler to include Sharon Nunn and Carla Chapman. "Current Trends and Future Concerns" concludes this first part by interaction between Cleminshaw, Shepler, Pam Cibik, and Shirley J. Stroud-Riddle.

Part Two of the video was shot at the Decker Family Development Center in Barberton, a nationally-known family development facility. "Practical Applications with Our Partners" focuses on three generations of a family, an Outreach Worker from Decker, and their experiences with community and home-based intervention. "Community-Based Intervention" explores the uses and possibilities of the PACT (Parents and Children Together) Program at Decker.

Part Three focuses on commentaries by community leaders who work with families in very different capacities. The leaders in "Community Leadership Forum" strongly support community and home-based interventions, coming to similar conclusions from a variety of perspectives.

The Center for Family Studies would like to thank some of the people who so generously contributed their time, energy, and expertise to the making of the video. Although the families who worked with us on this project are not listed below for reasons of privacy, we include a very special thank you to them.

Ohio Department of Mental Health

Michael F. Hogan, Director

Lon C. Herman, Residency Program Coordinator

Community-Based Providers

Carla Chapman, Family-Development Specialist, Akron Public Schools

Pam Cibik, Intensive Out-Patient Therapist, Akron Child Guidance Center

Sharon Nunn, Associate Community Service Provider, Canton Child and Adolescent Service Center

Rick Shepler, Supervisor, Intensive Home-Based Services Program, Canton Child and Adolescent Service Center

Shirley J. Stroud-Riddle, Social Worker, Canton Child and Adolescent Service Center

Decker Family Development Center

Mary Francis Ahern, Executive Director

Terry Askew, PACT (Parents and Children Together) Educator

Michelle Newbacher, PACT Educator

Daneen Sees, Outreach Worker

Diane Stefanko, Outreach Worker

Community Leaders

Louis Berroteran, Assistant Director of Administration, Summit County Executive Office

Judge Carol J. Dezso, Summit County Domestic Relations Court

James Lawrence, President, Oriana House, Akron

Marco Sommerville, Member, Akron City Council

Charles Vehlow, Executive Director, Akron Child Guidance Center