Family power : engaging and collaborating with families
Waves of change have weakened the influence of family in modern societies, yet family remains the most critical element in our social fabric. A new approach for working with families--epitomized by the process of "family group conferencing" (FGC) or "family group decision making" (FGDM) - seeks to strengthen this fabric by enlisting the collective power of families and their communities of care to address their own issues and solve their own prob...