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Navigating ASFA Principles: Enhancing Safety, Permanency, and Well-Being in Child Welfare

This comprehensive guide explores the principles and impacts of the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) on child welfare practitioners. It covers key topics including reasonable efforts for family reunification, the importance of permanency review hearings, and the active participation of foster and adoptive parents. The document emphasizes the significance of mediation strategies for practitioners, ensuring a focus on child needs, effective communication, and finding common ground among all parties. Through proper advocacy and understanding ASFA's mandates, practitioners can better support children's safety and well-being.

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Navigating ASFA Principles: Enhancing Safety, Permanency, and Well-Being in Child Welfare

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  1. ASFA Principles

  2. ASFA PRINCIPLES SAFETY PERMANENCY WELL-BEING

  3. ASFA IMPACTS ON PRACTITIONERS • REASONABLE EFFORTS FINDING; • PERMANENCY REVIEW HEARINGS; • MANDATORY FILING OF TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS CASES; • FOSTER PARENTS PARTICIPATION

  4. PERMANENCY MEDIATION AND ASFA • EARLY INTERVENTION AND DELAY REDUCTION; • ENCOURAGES FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE PARENTS TO PARTICIPATE; • PARTICIPATION IN DECISIONMAKING; • MAXIMIZES POSSIBILITY OF KINSHIP CARE; • ALLLOWS CONCURRENT PLANNING

  5. PARTICIPANTSCONSTRAINTS • SYSTEMIC • PERSONAL • SAFETY AND WELL BEING • RESOURCES

  6. Advocating in the Mediation Process • Are all the key players identified ? • Is your client willing to participate in mediation? • Have you prepared your client for mediation?

  7. Advocating…. • Have you selected the right mediator? • Focus on the child needs. • Commit the process. • Understanding that the alternatives may have outcomes much less favorable.

  8. SET A TONE FOR YOUR CLIENT • FOCUS ON THE ISSUES, NOT THE PEOPLE • REFRAIN FROM MAKING INFLAMMATORY STATEMENTS • MAINTAIN BALANCE, LOOK FOR COMMON GROUND

  9. SET A TONE FOR YOUR CLIENT • ENCOURAGE CLIENT TO PARTICIPATE FULLY • OBTAIN AND SHARE NEEDED DATA • USE THE MEDIATOR AS A COLLABORATOR

  10. STRATEGIES FOR PRACTITIONERS • Scheduling to allow all participants to be present. • Prepare a plan with your client that addresses how to proceed in mediation. • Establish acceptable range or outcomes.

  11. STRATEGIES FOR PRACTITIONERS • Identify factual, legal and non-legal issues. • Be willing to listen to the other side. • Be prepared to enter into an agreement on the day of mediation.

  12. BE PATIENT BE CREATIVE

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