Cheryl Zlotnick is director of the Center for the Vulnerable Child and clinician, evaluator, and principal investigator at the Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute.

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Sharing the daily struggles of children and families residing in transitional situations (homelessness or because of risk of homelessness, being connected with the child welfare system, or being new immigrants in temporary housing), this text recommends strategies for delivering mental health and intensive case-management services that maintain family integrity and stability. Based on work undertaken at the Center for the Vulnerable Child in Oakland, California, which has provided mental health and intensive case management to children and families living in transition for more than two decades, the volume outlines culturally sensitive practices to engage families that feel disrespected or betrayed.

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IntroductionPart I. Theories of Practice with Transitional Families1. Transitional Families: Where Do I Begin?Cheryl Zlotnick and Luann DeVoss2. "We Don't Get Whuppings Here Anymore": Toward a Collaborative, Ecological Model of ParentingMarguerite A. Wright3. Giving Voice: An Exploration of the Integration of Social Justice and Infant Mental HealthErica Torres and Kathryn OrfirerPart II. Preparing the Organization for Its Work with Transitional Families4. Letting Some Air into the Room: Opening Agency Space for Considerations of Culture and Power Lisa R. Berndt5. Rediscovering Positive Work Relationships Within a Diverse Relationship-Based Organization: Serving Children in TransitionKaren ThomasPart III. Promising Programs and Culturally Informed Interventions6. Transforming Shame: Allowing Memories in Foster Care to Inform Interventions with Foster YouthLou Felipe7. Crossing the Border and Facing the System: Challenges Immigrant Families Experience When a Child Is Removed from Their Care and Placed into the Child Welfare SystemRosario Murga-Kusnir8. "I Am Bad!"Roberto Macias Sanchez9. "When Do I Get to Go Home?"Peggy Pearson10. The CATS Project: Helping Families Land on Their FeetVance HitchnerPart IV. Needs for the Future11. A Systems Dilemma: Intergenerational Foster Care and HomelessnessCheryl ZlotnickList of ContributorsIndex