- Helps the family understand the agency's role and reason for involvement
- Families fully participate in planning for the safety and protection of their children
- Greater feelings of empowerment by families. Families are encouraged and supported to make decisions and plans
- Creation of a plan that is accepted by the family network
- Mobilisation of greater informal and formal support for families
- A strength-based approach is used instead of a deficit-based model
- The agency and the family work together, instead of "against" one another, to create a family plan
- The family and friends’ network is available to the child 24/7, whereas a professional is not usually available after 5:30pm or at weekends