The
Four Key Strategies of Family to Family
There
are four core strategies at the heart of Family-to-Family:
- Recruitment,
Training, and Support of Resource Families (Foster
and Relative): Finding and maintaining local resources
who can support children and families in their own
neighborhoods by recruiting, training and supporting
foster parents and relative caregivers.
- Building
Community Partnerships: Partnering with a wide range
of community organizations -- beyond public and private
agencies -- in neighborhoods which are the source of
high referral rates, to work together toward creating
an environment that supports families involved in the
child welfare system and thereby helps to build stronger
neighborhoods and stronger families.
- Family
Team Decision-Making: Involving not just foster parents
and caseworkers, but also birth families and community
members in all placement decisions to ensure a network
of support for the child and the adults who care for
them.
- Self-Evaluation:
Using hard data linked to child and family outcomes
to drive decision-making, and to show where change
is needed and where progress has been made.
Adapted from Annie E. Casey Foundation's Tools for
Rebuilding Foster Care.
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