The Lifelong Families Training Curriculum

Training Manual

By the Annie E. Casey Foundation

May 15, 2012

Summary

This Casey training program began when the prevailing child welfare model shifted from long-term foster care to a signature permanency program. Lifelong Families, created by our now defunct child welfare agency, promotes permanence through a practice called teaming. The goal of this curriculum is to train social workers in the implementation of the Lifelong Families permanency approach so kids in high-needs treatment foster care can find permanent families and improved well-being. The manual presents a comprehensive 2-day curriculum including agenda, assignments, presentations, handouts, daily modules with timetable and more.

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Key Takeaway

The collaborative strategy deemed Teaming is key to the success of the Lifelong Families permanence approach.

Facilitated by the child’s social worker, Permanency Teaming uses a blend of meetings to address safety, well-being and permanence. As a collaborative approach to planning for kids either in foster care or at risk of entering foster care, Permanency Teaming identifies a legal parent for each youth. The team is then engaged in a process aimed at exiting the youth from foster care by identifying, developing and sustaining legal family relationships.

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