Keeping them Connected: The Role of Parent-Child Visitation In Promoting Child Well-Being and Achieving Timely Permanency
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Thursday, Nov 8 at 9:00 AM EST

This training will be held at the Lexington Hotel, 925 South Creyts Road Lansing, Michigan 48917

Studies have shown that parent-child visitation is an essential component for ensuring child well-being and achieving timely permanency for children served by Michigan’s child welfare system. Frequent parental involvement that is well planned, purposeful, and progressive, eases a child’s anxiety, reduces the impact of trauma caused by separation from the child’s parent, and improves the child’s overall well-being while in foster care. Such visitation has been shown to shorten a child’s stay in foster care and increase the likelihood that safe and permanent reunification will occur. This multidisciplinary training will illustrate the importance of maximizing parent-child contact to an audience of judges, attorneys, caseworkers, foster parents, and other child welfare professionals. The training will also highlight the need for reasonable efforts to protect, promote, and improve the connections between parents and their children in out-of-home placements.

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