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Visit / Connections
Research has shown that visits are one of the most critical things a child welfare professional can do to support the outcomes of safety, permanency and well-being. This includes visits between parents and children when the child is in foster care, children’s visits with siblings, worker visits with children and worker visits with birth parents and other caregivers.
Parent/Child Visits
- View Rose presenting on the laws, research and best practice of Parent/Child Visits. http://www.uwtv.org/programs/displayevent.aspx?rID=27405
- Introduction to Parent/Child Visit – A free online training – http://training.childwelfare.gov/oltMain.cfm?z=z (registration or login required)
- The Five Steps to Developing a Visit Plan
- Visit Planning Decision Sample Case
- Developing a Visit Plan Planned, Purposeful and Progressive Visit Planning tool
- Impact of Separation Chart - Tool to determine how children at each developmental age group respond to separation, trauma and grief. Strategies on how adults can help the child adjust and develop resiliency.
- Visit Curricula
- Visit Planning: Planned, Purposeful, Progressive Visits – One Day Version
- Sample PowerPoint of One-Day course
- Visit Planning: Planned, Purposeful, Progressive Visits – Two Day Version
- Visiting Incarcerated Parents
- Incarcerated Parent Visit Course
- Supervising Visits Course
- Teaching and Assessing Parent Skills Visits Course
Sibling Visits
- Outline of Sibling Connections
- Enhancing Sibling Connections
- Sample PowerPoint (Enhancing Sibling Connections)
- State Strategies of Joint Placement of Siblings
- Suggestion List for Professionals to Improve Sibling Connections
- See the video of this presentation (Click this link, then scroll down to Enhancing Sibling Connections. The video is at the end of the webpage.)
Worker Visits with Children
- Outline of Child Visits Curriculum
- Sample PowerPoint (Overview of Child Visits)
- Questions to assess safety, permanency and well-being when talking to Children and their Caregivers (based on the child’s developmental age)
Worker Visits with Parents or Caregivers
- Overview of Worker Visits with Parents
- Sample PowerPoint (Worker Visits with Parents)
- Questions to assess safety, permanency and well-being when talking to birth parents (based on the developmental age of the child)