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| More on CFR's Visiting Project |
Since 2003, CFR has made the goal of improving Visiting for children a central practice and policy
priority. Working closely with ACS, foster care agencies, child advocates and even judges, we are
determined to insure that every person working with a child in foster care makes visiting a priority.
Thanks to generous cornerstone support from the Ira W. DeCamp Foundation, our Visiting Project
now has three components: direct assistance to improve visits for the children of clients assisted
by CFR; training and technical assistance to foster care agencies and other professionals on improved visits,
and policy work with the Administration for Children's Services (ACS) and other city agencies to achieve
systemic change that will improve visiting practices in foster care agencies citywide and well into the future.
Our Visiting Project highlights include:
- Our Visit Host Pilot, where we place a CFR social worker in various foster care agencies to recruit
visit hosts for families: a Visit Host is a friend, relative, pastor or other connected adult identified
by the family who can monitor visits for families in place of the agency caseworker so that families
can visit outside the agency, doing things they enjoy, for longer periods of time;
for more information on our Visit Host Project, click here.
- Training and technical assistance sessions that have reached over 900 professionals working with
children find better, more creative ways to assure families visit as often as possible and share
activities that matter to them as a family; we've trained caseworkers, attorneys, judges, and other
volunteers in the city, across the state, and increasingly in other states;
- A Practice Toolkit for professionals who are trying to get more visits for a family;
- For our CFR clients, we've helped integrate visit coaches, visit hosts and family therapists into
visits so that parents can really learn better parenting and important needs are addressed; in more
than 40% of the families we serve, children have returned home safely because of high quality visits;
- We serve on various city and statewide task forces to improve visiting: helping to develop
guidelines for foster care agencies to enhance visiting for families and pursuing laws and regulations
that will make it possible for families to have more than just a few days a year to stay connected.
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