Getting to Reunification

Visiting TIPS

• Parent-to-Parent Tips for Handling Supervised Visits with Children in Care: Watch the video

• Parent-to-Parent Tips for Coping with Visits During COVID-19

• Visiting Tips: This set of four handouts provides peer guidance on rights, responsibilities and problem-solving.
  
  Making the Most of Visits offers guidance from a parent advocate on creating routines, playing, handling tough questions, and saying goodbye in a positive way.
  
  What You Need to Know provides basic information about how parents can get more family time with their kids – and what will set visits back.
  
  Handling Painful Feelings acknowledges the challenges of visiting, especially for parents who have experienced trauma.
  
  Helping Children Heal explains attachment and guides parents in connecting with children who are angry, hurt and sad.

Service Planning Tips

• Set of 4 handouts: Getting Started on Service Planning; The Challenge of Change Under Stress; Relationships for Change; Making Your Voice Heard

Guides

• A Time to Bond: A parent-to-parent guide to visits with children in foster care

• Building a Bridge: Stories about connections between parents and foster parents

Personal Essays

• Eat, Play, Love: Visits helped me become a good mother

• A Knock on the Door: My family needed support, not separation
  By Philneia Timmons

• ‘Your Actions Are Setting You Back’: Losing my temper in visits hurt my case
  By Jeanette Vega

• The Hard Way: I didn’t understand how being abused in foster care affected me until years after my own child was removed

• Closer Than Ever: I’m learning how to handle my children without getting high
  By Sandra Evans