Permanency Planning

Permanency planning is the process of assessing and preparing a child for long term care when in out-of-home placements such as kinship, foster care or institutions. A care plan must centre on what is in the child’s best interests, and therefore requires an ongoing assessment of the child and her needs. A guardian may be appointed as a further protection of a child’s rights. 

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Maria Cancian, Steven T. Cook, Mai Seki and Lynn Wimer - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study examines whether requiring parents to pay child support to offset the costs of foster care delays children's permanent placement, whether through reunification with a parent, adoption, or guardianship.

Haksoon Ahn, Samantha Hartzel, Terry Shaw - Research on Social Work Practice,

This study evaluates one mid-Atlantic state’s implementation of a FGDM called family involvement meetings (FIMs) to improve family strengths and their active engagement in the service planning process.

Inter-agency group on children's reintegration - Emily Delap and Joanna Wedge,

These Guidelines build on several existing care policies, including the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. 

Judith Lind and Cecilia Lindgren - Child and Family Social Work,

This paper analyzes the concluding sections of assessment reports on applicants for intercountry adoption in Sweden to answer the following question: what must be said about an individual or a couple in order for her/them to be seen as a suitable adoptive parent?

Justin Rogers - Youth Divide and Youth Inclusion,

This paper presents findings from a doctoral project that explored the experiences of young people growing up in foster care in the United Kingdom.

Montserrat Fargas-Malet, Dominic McSherry, John Pinkerton, and Greg Kelly -- Child & Family Social Work,

Compared to children in other placements, there is much less known about the characteristics and needs of children in the UK who are returned to their birth parents with a care order still in place.

Susan Baidawi, Philip Mendes and Bernadette J. Saunders - Child and Family Social Work,

This exploratory research involved focus group consultations with seven child and family welfare agencies to investigate the impacts, barriers, benefits and limitations of cultural support planning for Indigenous young people in, and leaving care in, Victoria. 

James Bell Associates,

This three-part video series shows how a fictional organization, Greene County Department of Human Services, set out to improve permanency for children and youth by increasing the number of available foster and adoptive homes using data-driven decision making (DDDM).

Marc A. Winokur, Amy Holtan, Keri E. Batchelder - Research on Social Work Practice,

This systematic review evaluated the effect of kinship care placement compared to foster care placement on the safety, permanency, and well-being of children removed from the home for maltreatment.

Greta Munns,

This TedX presentation features Greta Munns, a youth empowerment advocate who was placed in foster care at age fifteen. Her “story” is what prompted her exploration of the foster care system.