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Concurrent Planning

Explains to social workers how they can work toward reunification while, at the same time, develop an alternative permanent plan for each child. This guidebook includes:

• Philosophy and actions for earlier permanency
• Annotated bibliographies of research and opinion
• Adoption Safe Families Act (ASFA) passed 1997
• Worksheets for achieving:

Courtwise

Helps social workers and legal practitioners to understand each other and their respective roles, enabling both to work more closely for the benefit of the child in need. This guidebook provides:

• A clear explanation of basic legal principles
• An outline of social work beliefs
• Different approaches of the two professions
• Recognition of the expertise each profession brings to case planning
• Sample court orders, contracts and written agreements to help in case planning

Preparing Permanency Planning
Foster Parents

Gives social workers the tools they need to guide prospective foster parents through the permanency planning process. This guidebook includes:

• A rationale for training permanency foster parents
• Explanation of necessary elements in this unique training
• Step by step training guidelines
• Participant handouts

Special Offer - All Three Books

Order all three Concurrent Planning Guidebooks for the special price of $60.00!

Birth parents with a lengthy history of involvement with Children’s Protective Services tell their story of addiction and recovery.

Parent-child visiting is the crux of concurrent planning. Five foster families share their thoughts and feelings about their role in visits, how they established a meaningful relationship with the birth parents, and candidly discuss some of the problems that commonly occur.

Foster parents talk about their reasons for becoming permanency planning foster families. They describe the challenges they face and identify support systems or philosophies that helped them survive.

Adult adoptees tell their story of foster care placement and share their feelings regarding ongoing contact with their birth family. This retrospective video illustrates the success and challenges of four children. Adoptees give advice to other families from their own experiences.

Open adoption is a very common outcome for children involved in concurrent planning foster care programs. Foster parents tell of the early stages of building trust and forming a relationship with birth parents and discuss benefits that they anticipate from ongoing contact.

Four foster families share their experiences managing difficult behaviors and the effects of prenatal drug and alcohol exposure.

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