Working on Permanency, with Foster Parents and Plummer Youth Promise

Recently, we co-hosted a training at our offices in Cambridge for foster parents with our Permanency Practice Alliance partners, Plummer Youth Promise. Titled “Foster Parents Partnering in Permanency: Helping Youth Go Home or Find Home – And Stay Home!,” the training looked at the importance of identifying permanent families for kids in foster care. A lot of the content focused on ideas and strategies for foster parents to build relationships with their foster children’s birth parents, siblings and/or extended family.

The attendees included staff and foster parents from CFCS, Plummer and the Home for Little Wanderers. Led by a social worker and a foster mom who both work with Plummer, the group discussed the role foster parents have in helping youth in foster care to achieve permanency.

Thank you to all the foster families who attended, as well as to Plummer! We thought this was an excellent training, and we look forward to many more.