Every Every ChildChild

Promoting Placement Stability, Safety and Permanency through

Caseworker/Child Visits

Every Every MonthMonth

Visits are associated

with a higher rate of

children not having to be

removed from their parent’s

home.

Children are traumatized

and experience

grief and loss when placed

in foster care.

Visits lead to children being safer in foster

care, in relative care and in

their parent’s home.

Permanency (reunification, adoption, guardianship and PPLA) occurs more frequently and in less time when workers visit children.

Caseworkers visits are

associated with a higher rate of siblings being

placed together.

“I often will not tell you that there’s a lock on the refrigerator, or I have to ask permission to use the shampoo, or that I got socks for Christmas and their kids got toys.”

-Words from Foster Youth

Children and Youth’s needs

are more likely to be met when a

worker visits regularly.

Children’s connections are maintained.

When workers visit children

they are more likely to

meet with parents and

to arrange child/parent

visits.

Youth report that caseworkers who meet with them frequently also engage the youth in making case planning decisions.