This video tells the story of Leah and how she reunified with her birth mom through services provided by the Foundation's former direct service agency.
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This video — shown in nine chapters — is an inside look at the critical steps in the Permanency Teaming component of the Lifelong Families Model.
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This video provides an inside look at the central component of the Lifelong Families Model — Permanency Teaming — while highlighting how the team discussion addresses other core components of the model.
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This video shares the story of several young people from foster care who have achieved permanence and what it means for each of them.
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This video provides an overview of Lifelong Families, a practice model developed and tested by our former direct service agency.
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Training Manual
This child welfare training manual presents a comprehensive 2-day curriculum on the Lifelong Families permanency model for social worker training. It includes agenda, assignments, presentations, handouts, daily modules with timetable and more.
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Training Manual
This policy and procedures manual for social workers delineates how Casey incorporated family strengthening and permanency planning into all aspects of its child welfare practice framework – assessments, assignments, planning, placement, decision making, teaming, referrals.
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The Permanency Continuum Series
This training for social workers focuses on finding a permanent family for foster care kids through guardianship.
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This set of practice tools offers guidance through questions, surveys, inventories and examples for helping social workers and supervisors understand and organize the case factors affecting permanency for a foster child.
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This toolkit contains the 13 inventories and forms used to measure fidelity when applying the principles and components of Lifelong Families, a foster care practice model.
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