Foster Care - A Path to Reunification - Part 2 - San Diego

04/11/19 • 46 min

'Foster Care: A Path to Reunification – Part 2' explores all the partnerships, training, and coordination within San Diego County’s Children’s Services. Listeners will learn about trauma-informed assessment tools, the collaboration with a county-based community college to support training, as well as listen to birth families and older youth as they share their experiences to enhance resource families’ ability to support the children in their care.

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Foster Care: A Path to Reunification - Part 1 - Center for Family Life

'Foster Care: A Path to Reunification – Part 1' shares the work of the Center for Family Life, an organization that aims to stabilize families by providing an array of neighborhood-based family and social services in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Foster care is one of their programs, and families involved in the center’s foster care program are linked to other services to address the family’s specific needs. As a neighborhood-based organization, they also work to ensure children in foster care can continue to attend their current schools and maintain their social and family connections, where appropriate.

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