Achieving Permanency Through Guardianship Training

The Permanency Continuum Series

By the Annie E. Casey Foundation

January 14, 2012

Summary

This full-day training builds on the Casey Family Services’ Lifelong Families training and its Replication Manual training. The training focuses specifically on achieving and sustaining permanence for children and youth in foster care through guardianship following the passage of the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act. 

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Key Takeaway

Exiting the foster care system through legal permanence remains the goal

The Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act is the recent federal law that made many changes in how social workers operate with relatives of children in foster care.

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