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Information Services
Resources
- WLA,
Toolbox Series on Youth Permanency
- Toolbox
# 1: Using Visitation to Support Permanency,
By Lois Wright
This publication presents the best professional
child welfare practice in planning and implementing
visitation between children in out-of-home care
and their parents, within the context of current
federal legislation emphasizing permanency planning.
This toolbox contains helpful aids and tools
that practitioners can use quickly and easily
to guide their thinking and the information
necessary to use the tools fully and meaningfully
- Toolbox
# 2: Expanding the Role Of Foster Parents in
Achieving Permanency for Children, By Susan
Dougherty
Over the last decade, the role of a foster parent
has evolved from that of a temporary caregiver
to being an essential part of a professional
team determining the best long-term plan for
a child. This publication focuses on practical
ways in which best child welfare practice can
be incorporated into the recruitment, training,
and support of foster parents and ways that
agencies can enhance the role of foster parents
in a changing child welfare system.
- Toolbox
# 3: Facilitating Permanency for Youth,
By Gerald P. Mallon
Facilitating permanency for youth in foster
care can be challenging. Although the child
welfare system has maintained in its policies
and practices a clear focus for younger children
in need of permanency, it has been less explicit
on the logistics of facilitating that goal.
This publication focuses on promising practices
and approaches shown to promote permanency for
youth. Contents include a current literature
and research review; highlights of promising
strategies, partnerships, and innovative public
policies; case review prototypes; strategies
for including the adolescent in the service
planning process; definitions of outcomes for
adolescent permanency; and many other areas.
This book will provide practitioners with the
vision and the practical guidance needed to
facilitate and support permanency for youth
and thus improve youth chances for safety, permanency,
and well-being. http://www.cwla.org/pubs/pubdetails.asp?PUBID=10048
- Families
and Adolescents for Life
Training Materials
- A
Family for Every Child: Strategies to Achieve Permanence
for Older Foster Children and Youth
- Family
Ties
This report finds children in long-term foster care
can find safety, permanence and security with grandparents
and other caregivers. According to the report by
the national, nonpartisan Fostering Results, children
adrift in foster care can find safety, permanence
and security with grandparents and other caregivers
as an alternative to remaining in foster care.
- Permanency
Pact
- Teleconference
on 2005 Permanency Bill
New York State OCFS
- Study Shows Legal Representation of Children Expedites Permanency
This article by Lily Dorman-Colby discusses an evaluation of the Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County's Foster Children's Project (FCP) that shows a direct link between legal representation of children in foster care and their permanency outcomes. The study used data provided by the child welfare records from the Department of Children and Families' HomeSafeNet administrative database and from the juvenile court case files. The study also included interviews of judicial professionals, social workers, youth, and their parents. Findings indicate children represented by FCP were determined to have significantly higher rates of achieving permanency; adoption or guardianship was almost three times more likely with children served by FCP; there was a significant increase in long-term custody among children represented by FCP; reunification rates were unchanged; and permanency and the timing of legal milestones were expedited. Suggestions for courts and court professionals are made. The article is available from ABA Center on Children and the Law’s Child Court Works v. 10.3 (June 2008).
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