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PARTNERSHIP PARENTS
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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 ValuesVision
Stronger Families for a Stronger Georgia.
MissionStrengthen 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.
PARTNESHIP PARENTS
• Foster Parents• Provide temporary care• Work in partnership with birth families• Act as mentors• Share parenting responsibilities through “parenting
opportunities.
“Parenting Opportunities”
• Favorable times, occasions, situations or conditions which allow a parent to safely teach, support, nurture, discipline care for or guide children.
ADOPTIVE PARENT
• Forever families• Make a lifetime commitment to a child• Serve children totally free for adoption ( parental
rights have been terminated or surrendered)
Adoptive Parent-Legal Risk
• Serve Children not totally legally free for adoption• Children have an adoption goal
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.
• Reunification• Adoption• Guardianship• Placement with Fit and Willing
Relative
Concurrent Plan
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.
Resource Parent vs. Legal Risk Parent
RESORTING OF FAMILIES
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