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Engaging Parents in Permanency Planning
Permanency planning for children is best done with the involvement of children's birth parents and other family members. Whether the permanency goal is reunification, adoption, guardianship, or placement with a relative, working closely with the children's parents embodies family-centered practice and can facilitate permanency more quickly than if parents are not engaged. Resources include State and local examples.
Best Practices of Empowerment-Oriented Permanency Planning: Facilitating Change and Self-Development in Parents and Families: A Handbook for Caseworkers
Council of Family and Child Caring Agencies (2000, 4th ed.)
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Presents family-centered, empowerment-oriented practices for assisting families in permanency planning.
Building Community Partnerships in Child Welfare. Part Two, Team Decisionmaking Involving the Family and Community in Child Welfare Decisions (PDF - 181 KB)
Annie E. Casey Foundation (2002)
Team decision-making approach used in the Family to Family initiative to involve family members, extended family, and the community in permanency decisions and services for foster children.
Evidence-Based Best Practices in the Engagement of Families
University of Kansas School of Social Welfare (2001)
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Synthesizes research from the empirical literature on engagement strategies and work with involuntary child welfare clients in the United States that are associated with positive outcomes.
Guide to Future Care and Custody Planning for Children With Recommendations for State Legislation (PDF - 1620 KB)
National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center (2005)
Presents best practices to help policymakers, advocates, and service providers who work with parents and their children in the permanency planning process.
Parent's Choices
Nicholson Spencer & Associates Training Institute (2002)
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A videotape designed to increase parents' awareness of the judicial and social services processes in a dependency case, and the impact of their decisions on their child's permanency plan.
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State and local examples
Evaluation of the Families Together Project
Families Together Project (2000)
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Utilized concurrent planning and family group conferencing to expedite permanency and increase family involvement in plans for children in foster care.
Families as Partners in Permanency: A Curriculum for Skills Development
Families Together Project (2000)
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Describes strategies for involving families in permanency planning and foster care.
New York City Child Welfare Advisory Panel Report on Family Engagement (PDF - 119 KB)
New York City Child Welfare Advisory Panel (2003)
Findings on family engagement policy and practice in New York City.
What I Should Know About My Child Living in Foster Care: A Parents' Guide (PDF – 790 KB)
South Dakota Child Protection Services (2004)
Provides parents with information about the placement of their child in foster care, addressing reasons for the foster care placement, different types of foster care placements, visitation, the parent's financial responsibility for foster care, termination of parental rights, and reunification.
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