Promoting Reunification as a Foster Parent

As a foster parent, your role goes beyond supporting the children in your care—it extends to supporting their families as a whole. Collaborative partnerships between foster caregivers and a child's family can help promote timely reunification, improve family engagement, build protective capacities in parents or caregivers, and strengthen child safety and well-being.

Child Welfare Information Gateway conducted a series of interviews with birth and foster parents—many of whom are with either the Birth Parent National Network (BPNN) or the Birth and Foster Parent Partnership (BFPP)—to help dispel some of the myths each may hold about the other. This factsheet shares their thoughts and advice and highlights partnership opportunities. Interviewees’ names have been changed to protect their identities.

This publication is also available in Spanish. 

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