Parenting Many children remain in foster care longer than is desirable, either because expectations of birth families are not clear or achievable, or required support services are not readily accessible to support reunification.
Parents are an essential factor in providing children with a sense of history and identity.
Although the goal of a treatment plan is reunification, it is important that parents maintain quality contact with their children. This concept draws from the way communities, neighbors and extended family traditionally formed partnerships to help raise children. In the context of foster care, Partnership Parenting sm involves birth parents, foster parents and Families First. Their work over the years has helped establish a strong relationship between themselves, the agency, families and children. These connections have been maintained through the years with ongoing contact by telephone, visits and vacations with the children at the request of birth parents.