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1201 – CHILD PLACEMENT SERVICES
CHANGE # 10-2008
October 2008
The implementation of shared parenting meetings in child placement cases is one of the Multiple Response System Strategies. The shared parenting framework represents a totality of all the Family-Centered Principles of Partnership.
The purpose of shared parenting is to ensure that the child’s needs of nurturance and safety are met. Shared parenting represents a System of Care value by being an active partnership among important people in the child’s life including birth parents, foster parents and the child’s social worker. The foster parent and social worker partner with the birth parent to help maintain the parent’s connection to their children while continually focusing on the welfare of the child. This connection can preserve and or rebuild their relationship leading to long term good outcomes for children and families.
Shared parenting emphasizes foster parents as being a support to birth families instead of substitute caretakers. By cultivating a nurturing relationship with the family, the foster parents begin to mentor the birth parents in appropriate practices. Because foster parents play this vital role, they must be prepared to care for a child interdependently with others.
Foster parents should have an expectation to participate in shared parenting as this is taught within the Model Approach to Partnerships in Parenting-Group Preparation and Selection (MAPP-GPS) training. The training curriculum is used as a framework to lead parent applicants toward assessing and learning abilities that are necessary for successful foster and/or adoptive parenting.
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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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