Permanency Planning

Features

Thoughtful Visitation Practices Prevent Disruption

Child's worker, current caregiver, and adoptive family must be committed to carefully conducting pre-placement visitation.... [more]

Family Group Decision Making: Implications for Permanency Planning

The model is designed to involve the entire family in making decisions about the best interests of children at risk for abuse and neglect, and while often implemented to address child protection issues, the practice has important implications for permanency planning as well.... [more]

Non-Traditional Recruitment for Teens and Pre-Teens

Identified methods of recruiting adoptive parents for teens and pre-teens.... [more]

Improving Court Practice in Achieving Permanency for Children

Review of the Adoption and Permanency Guidelines; promising practice for helping courts achieve permanency placement for children.... [more]

Adoption & Guardianship Programs

All children have the right and need to a family environment that will be permanent.... [more]

Build Families, Not Orphanages

Information on why it is so important for foster children to be raised in a permanent, caring loving family rather than being institutionalized.... [more]