Permanency Planning Today: Spring 2009

Spring, 2009 This issue of Permanency Planning Today discusses and provides examples of family engagement in various aspects of child welfare – from case planning to system improvement – in order to achieve positive outcomes for children and youth, while recognizing the relationship between family engagement and issues such as immigration and racial disproportion in the child welfare system. In this issue, you’ll find:  A description of New Mexico’s innovative use of icebreaker conversations between foster parents and biological parents. This approach recognizes the knowledge and information about a child in care that each can share in order to support . . .