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PARTNERSHIP PARENTS

PARTNERSHIP PARENTS. Presenter: Deborah Burrus, Permanency Director Presentation to : CPAs and DFCS Resource Development Staff Date: December 10, 2013. Georgia Department of Human Services . Vision, Mission and Core Values. Vision

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PARTNERSHIP PARENTS

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  1. PARTNERSHIP PARENTS Presenter: Deborah Burrus, Permanency Director Presentation to: CPAs and DFCS Resource Development Staff Date: December 10, 2013 Georgia Department of Human Services

  2. Vision, Mission and Core Values Vision Stronger Families for a Stronger Georgia. Mission Strengthen Georgia by providing Individuals and Families access to services that promote self-sufficiency, independence, and protect Georgia's vulnerable children and adults. Core Values • Provide access to resources that offer support and empower Georgians and their families. • Deliver services professionally and treat all clients with dignity and respect. Manage business operations effectively and efficiently by aligning resources across the agency. • Promote accountability, transparency and quality in all services we deliver and programs we administer. • Develop our employees at all levels of the agency.

  3. PARTNESHIP PARENTS • Foster Parents • Provide temporary care • Work in partnership with birth families • Act as mentors • Share parenting responsibilities through “parenting opportunities.

  4. “Parenting Opportunities” • Favorable times, occasions, situations or conditions which allow a parent to safely teach, support, nurture, discipline care for or guide children.

  5. ADOPTIVE PARENT • Forever families • Make a lifetime commitment to a child • Serve children totally free for adoption ( parental rights have been terminated or surrendered)

  6. Adoptive Parent-Legal Risk • Serve Children not totally legally free for adoption • Children have an adoption goal

  7. RESOURCE PARENT • Hybrid type of a foster and adoptive parent • Act as both parntership parent and adoptive parent • Children placed have a concurrent plan • At least one of the goals is adoption • Must be able to “concurrently fulfill the roles of being a Partnership Parent and an Adoptive Parent.

  8. Concurrent Plan • Reunification • Adoption • Guardianship • Placement with Fit and Willing Relative

  9. Concurrent Planning • Relative or Non-Relative • Child is unlikely to return home • TPR is not in the child’s best interest and Adoption is impractical or inappropriate • Placement is stable and in the best interest of the child.

  10. Resource Parent vs. Legal Risk Parent

  11. RESORTING OF FAMILIES

  12. Questions

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