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Morris County
Foster Parents Association
PRIDE SESSION 2 TRAINING MATERIALS
Session 2, "Teamwork Toward Permanence," introduces participants to the concept of permanence; a key concept in the child welfare system nationwide. In addition to discussing the importance of permanent connections for children, the session introduces the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA), which has driven case practice in New Jersey and most other states since its inception in 1997. The session also includes extensive discussion of the different parental roles and how they are shared between birth parents, DYFS, the courts and resource parents, and how this can affect a resource parent's autonomy in making decisions on behalf of children in their care.
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Current DYFS foster care rate tables - effective 1/1/2010
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A description of how cases for children in foster care are viewed by the court system
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A diagram of the DYFS hierarchy
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A description of the Federal Family & Medical Leave Act (FMLA), for which foster care and adoption are triggers
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A summary of the four standards (or "prongs") of the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA)
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New Jersey's law defining an abused or neglected child
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A table showing how the three parental roles (birth parent, legal parent and caregiving parent) are broken up when a child enters foster care
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A list of common placement questions that resource parents can ask a DYFS facilitator when being offered a child for placement
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DYFS policy on pre-school and daycare for children in foster care
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A sample DYFS Foster Parent ID Letter
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A sample DYFS Child's Medical Examination Form that is used by medical professionals when a child is examined before entering care or changing placements