Adoption / Foster Care: Working a Family Reunification Plan - Another Skill of a Great Foster Parent

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Working a Family Reunification Plan - Another Skill of a Great Foster Parent Jul 7th 2013, 00:00 My foster parent friend has a lot of experience helping a foster child reunify back with a birth mother. The social worker or case manager on the case usually puts into action a visitation plan and a reunification plan. A family reunification plan lists out the dates of visits, including how the visits will progress from a few hours, to an overnight, to a weekend, to several days in a row, before the child has completely moved back in with birth family. This isn't easy work, but it is very rewarding. It is a valued skill of a great foster parent - to know how to work a family reunification plan, and assist a nervous birth parent while parenting an excited foster child. It's also a confusing time for the children. They want to go back home, and it's never easy living in that middle ground - working towards home, but still in a foster home. How do you best handle that transition period - whether transitioning a child home or into an adoptive placement? Suggested Reading: What Are the Steps to Family Reunification within the Foster Care System? Great Foster Parents Work with Birth Family to Aid Reunification Learn How to Be a Great Foster Parent in 5 Weeks

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