39. Being a Part of The Team Part 2: A Conversation on How The County Can Support Reunification

In Episode 37, we shared insights from a foster and adoptive family perspective in recognition of National Reunification Month. Today, we continue the conversation on reunification with Jamie Horey from our local county Children’s Services.

Jamie, with her extensive experience as a worker, supervisor, and now Administrator over foster families, provides an in-depth overview of foster care, the role of family resource workers, and the importance of team collaboration in achieving reunification goals. We discuss how foster families can build positive relationships with caseworkers and how these relationships, along with parent-child visitations, increase reunification chances. Additionally, we examine whether maintaining connections with biological families contributes to the foster family shortage.

Be sure to check the show notes for links to upcoming foster care informational events and our previous conversation on reunification!

Episode Highlights: 
  • More about Jamie
  • What is reunification?
  • Ways for Foster Parents to Build Relationships with Family Resource Workers
  • The importance of communication
  • Support beyond Reunification
  • Recruitment
  • What is stopping families from Fostering?

 

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