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Though shared parenting meetings and child and family team meetings may feel alike, they serve two separate purposes. The purpose of shared parenting is to ensure that the child’s needs of nurturance and safety are met by partnering between birth parents, foster parents and the child’s social worker. It may begin as a meeting but evolves into a true partnership relationship that becomes a continued experience.
The purpose of the child and family team meeting is to reach an agreement with the child, youth, family, and community supports on how identified child welfare issues will be addressed throughout the life of the case by developing and implementing a family services agreement.
• Both are family-centered meetings
• Both utilize the 6 family-centered principles of partnership
• Planning is important to the success of both
• Both are initiated early in the case
• Both help meet the needs of the child
• Shared parenting is not about “the case”
• Child is usually not present at the first shared parenting meeting
• Shared parenting meetings are not on a “set” schedule
• Less people attend a shared parenting meeting
• Worker may not be present at every shared parenting contact
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For questions or clarification on any of the policy contained in these manuals, please contact your local county office. |
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