FAMILY CENTRES AND THEIR INTERNATIONAL ROLE IN SOCIAL ACTION
Family Centres and their International Role in Social Action
Social work as informal education
Edited by
CHRIS WARREN-ADAMSON
Department of Social Work Studies, University of Southampton
First published 2001 by Ashgate Publishing
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Contents
Chris Warren-Adamson
Christine Stones
Chris Warren-Adamson, with Anne-Marie David and Jean-Paul Ducandas
Paul Montgomery and Claire Cook
Irene Kyle and Maureen Kellerman, with Alla Ivask
Audrey Fessler
John Zalenski and Carolyn Burns
Ellen Jones and Dave Ely
Terri Fletcher and Mo Romano
Lynne Briggs
Robyn Munford and Jackie Sanders, with Ann Andrew, Peter Butler, Ripeka Kaipuke, Leland Ruwhiu
Andy Lloyd and Nick Frost
Vasso Gabrilidou, Elpida Ioannidou and Evi Hatzivarnava
Di Holland
Joy Adamson with Members of Togher Family Centre, Ireland
Chris Warren-Adamson
Thanks to all the contributors to this text, especially for your skills and patience; thanks to Anita Lightbum whos always there for me; thanks to those who contain, clarify, inspire, illuminate my route, including the background presence of Crescy Cannan, Hugh England, Tony Maluccio and June Thobum, as well as Rgis, Mireille and Jean-Louis, Patricia and Jean-Marie; thanks to The Group Becca, Celia, Fatima, Karen, Kim, Lucy, Mandy, Mark, Miranda, for constancy and inspiration; and thanks to the Family Centre Action Research Group for what you teach and for what you do Penny Coombes, Sheila Cullen, Ellen Jones, Mags Lewis, Mike Lloyd, Sue McKeman, Karen Southern, Jo Tulloch; thanks to Adam Dinham, Beveley Clifford and Tracy Jackson; and, of course, to JA, JW, RWA, R, B, and C.
Joy Adamson is trained in social work, family therapy and play therapy and works in Sussex, England. She is developing two services, child and family therapy in primary care, from a doctors surgery, and also a schools counselling service.
Ann Andrew is a community social worker and researcher in Aotearoa/New Zealand, providing intensive social work services to young people and their families and undertakes community-based research.
Lynne Briggs is the clinical Head of the Family Mental Health Service in Christchurch, New Zealand. She also is a Senior Lecturer for the University of Otago. Lynne teaches the Mental Health and Specialist Practice and Advanced Counselling papers on the MSW programme.
Carolyn Burns is Executive Director of the Berkshire Center for Children and Families, a substantial family resource centre in Massachusetts, USA. She also serves as a consultant to the Massachusetts Department of Social Services.
Peter Butler is a community-based youth worker in Aotearoa/New Zealand, working with high risk young males and participates in community-based research that focusses on the young people he works with on a day to day basis.
Claire Cook is the Early Years Development and Childcare Service Manager for Dorset County Council, England. She was Project Manager for NCH Action for Children at Abingdon and Didcot family centres in the 1990s.
Anne-Marie David trained as a conseillre en conomie sociale and manages a centre socio-culturel in Lower Normandy, France.
Jean-Paul Ducandas trained as an animateur and manages a centre socio-culturel in Lower Normandy, France.
Dave Ely is Regional Social Work Manager for the South East Region, England, of the Childrens Society, having worked previously in local authority social work. Dave Ely was manager of St Gabriels Family Centre in the 1990s.
Audrey Fessler is formerly chair and committee member of the Elizabeth Fry Centre, in Nottingham, England, and is also the Centres historian.
Terri Fletcher is project leader for the Childrens Societys First Stop, Keeping Safe project which works from a housing estate in Brighton. Terri trained as a social worker and has previously worked in residential social work with children and adults who have learning disabilities. Her previous experience includes working as a rights advice worker, organising holiday playschemes for children with disabilities and teaching English as a foreign language.
Nick Frost is senior lecturer in Continuing Education at the University of Leeds, England. He has published in many areas of child welfare and lifelong learning and has particular interests in family support, residential care and the nature of professionalism.
Vasso Gabrilidou is a social worker in the National Organisation for Social Care (ex National Welfare Organisation). She is now Director of Oreokastro Childrens Institution, Thessaloniki, Greece. She has worked for many years as social worker in various family centres of the National Welfare Organisation.
Evi Hatzivarnava is the Director of Research and Planning of the National Organisation for Social Care (ex National Welfare Organisation).
Di Holland, originally a teacher, is a part-time project worker at the NCH Action for Children Yeovil Family Centre, Somerset, England, with responsibility for groups run at the centre and at one of the infant schools. Previously she was an Education Welfare Officer with the Inner London Education Authority and also a Social Worker with the School Psychological Service on the Wirral.
Elpida loannidou is a social worker in Toumba Family Centre, Thessaloniki, Greece. The National Organisation for Social Care (ex National Welfare Organisation) is responsible for the centre.
Alla Ivask has been with the Canadian Association of Family Resource Programs for nine years. She has developed and managed million dollar projects in a career spanning immigrant/refugee settlement to social services.
Ellen Jones is Network Manager at St Gabriels Family Centre, Brighton, England, and has worked for the Childrens Society since 1983, having previously worked for a local authority as a residential social worker.
