Search results
Basic Principles Promoted by the Best Practice Guide. a. Visitation is essential for a child’s well-being. The primary purpose of visitation is to maintain the parent-child attachment, reduce a child’s sense of abandonment, and preserve their sense of belonging as part of a family and community.
Visitation facilitates permanency planning, promotes timely reunification, and helps in the decision-making process to establish alternative permanency plans. Visitation maintains and supports the parent-child relationship necessary for successful reunification.
visitation, how to develop the visitation plan, how to engage fathers and other family members in the visitation process, the role of the foster parents, and how to move from one level or supervision to another.
DFPS issued a Child and Family Visitation Best Practice Guide for the field in 2015.279 This guide provides Department employees with policy, guidance, and tools to assess the appropriateness of visitation, how to develop the visitation plan, how to engage fathers and other family members in the visitation process, the role of the foster parents...
The Visitation Matters Training Guide and Resource Manual is a collection of 31 files that provides direction and skill development in creating visitation plans that support permanency.
Hurricane Preparedness Plans for Child Care Providers—A printable checklist. www.TexasReady.gov—A step-by-step guide to building an emergency preparedness plan.
Consider ways to provide this guidance to your child care center families. Have a plan if someone is or becomes sick. Plan to have an isolation room that can be used to isolate a sick child.
