Incorporating Education into the Family to Family Initiative

September 1, 2008 In this report by Andrea Zetlin, Lois Weinberg, and Nancy Shea, the academic challenges faced by children in foster care are discussed, and strategies for incorporating education into Family to Family programs are described. Family to Family is a family-centered, neighborhood-based system of foster care that promotes permanence for all children. There are four core strategies upon which Family to Family relies for reforming child welfare systems: building community partnerships which focuses on building relationships in communities and neighborhoods that can support families involved in the child welfare system; team decision making which involves a . . .