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The
LINK
Family Initiative
"In
careful stages, the families can be
linked for the sake of the children."
Annie E. Casey
Foundation, Family To Family Tools
In the post-ASFA world family
foster care is viewed as a temporary extension of the
child's family, not as a replacement for it. In this new
approach foster and birth families work as teammates with
birth families and caseworkers in caring for children.
Foster parents are, and will be, challenged to create
shared parenting relationships with birth families and
agencies which protect children in a community of care as
they move through the system. Creating those
relationships will require an effort on everyone's part.
There must be planning, good communication and
cooperation among all parties for shared parenting to
work.
LINK Families is an ongoing NYSCCC permanency planning initiative originally developed through grants from the National Foster Parent Association and The Salvation Army of Syracuse's Concurrent Planning project. Believing that a strong foster parent support system is vital to their ability to assist children through the permanency planning process, NYSCCC is committed to developing a strong foster parent network in every New York State county.
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