When children come into foster care, adjusting to a new family and maybe even a new school can be very stressful. Their time in foster care can be made easier if their parents and their foster parents can work together to make sure all of their needs are met. This can be challenging, but rewarding, as relationships may continue when the child returns home or is adopted.

• The Reflective Foster Parent
• Working With Birth Parents from "Fostering Perspectives"
• Fostering Relationships from "Fostering Prespectives"
• The Importance of Birth Parent Relationships to Children in Care
• Helping Children with Birth Family Connections
• Birth Family Connections for Youth in Foster Care
• Building A Bridge: A New Resource for Building Collaboration Between Parents and Foster Parents
• Assessing Strengths in Parents and Families
• Facilitating Contact Between Birth Families and Children
• The Agency Role in Building Foster and Birth Family Collaboration
• Working with Birth Families to Help Children Move Children to Timely Permanence (pdf)
• Punished for Being Poor? - a video exploring a birth mother's perspective by Konstantin Syomin and Haya Fatima Iqbal