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Session 7
Unit Three: Supporting Connections
Contact between children and their birth parents is an integral part of placement. Regular contact is usually required by the court until parental rights are terminated and contact sometimes continues after terminated parental rights and in cases of open adoption.
Visits play an important role for a child to maintain a sense of continuity and connection. Sixty-five to eighty-five percent of children who come into foster care have siblings and statistics show that 75 percent of siblings are placed separately.
Case Review - When Family Ties Are Broken Activity
Purpose:
You will be asked to place yourselves in the position of the birthparents in the next activity, to gain a sense of the stressors that led to the family's involvement with the child protective system, as well as the issues in their families that contributed to their own challenges. In addition, you will be asked to consider your own feelings and actions as foster parents supporting reunification of this family.
Click for Session 7 Unit 3c
