Essential elements of implementing a system of concurrent planning

Frame, Laura; Berrick, Jill Duerr; Coakley, Jennifer Foulkes

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2206.2006.00422.x

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“…Concurrent planning is designed to expedite permanency planning for children in foster care by requiring social workers to pursue reunification with the biological family and adoptive home placements concurrently (Frame, Berrick & Coakley, 2006). In California, concurrent planning is legally mandated and incorporates the following key components (taken from Frame, Berrick & Coakley, 2006, p. 357):…”

Section: Agency/system-level Activitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Achieving Timely Adoption

Carnochan

Moore

Austin

2013

Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work

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While family reunification is the primary permanency objective for children who must be placed temporarily outside of their homes, reunification is not possible for all children. For those children who do not return to their parents and cannot find permanent homes with other family members, adoption is the favored outcome. This review examines the composite measure in the federal Child and Family Services Review that measures agency performance related to the timeliness of adoptions of foster children. It summarizes the multiple factors that research has found to be associated with increased risk for adoption delay and disruption. These include child characteristics, family of origin and adoptive family characteristics, and features of child welfare services and systems. Practices that have been broadly linked to adoption timeliness or address risk factors associated with delays in adoption are described, including social worker activities and agency or system-wide practice.

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Section: Agency/system-level Activitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Achieving Timely Adoption

Carnochan

Moore

Austin

2013

Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work

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“…These dynamics seem to be in contrast to experiences of CP in which workers were concerned about timeframes and ethics (D'Andrade, Frame and Berrick, 2006) and antagonism was common between birth families, workers and carers (Kenrick, 2010).…”

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confidence: 63%

“…Workers who may have perceived the decision to sever legal ties between child and parent as confronting may have found open adoption more acceptable. This is in contrast to CP where researchers comment on its dualistic nature being problematic for workers and note resistance to severing legal ties (D'Andrade, Frame and Berrick, 2006).…”

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confidence: 88%

A pathway from long-term care to adoption: findings from an Australian permanency programme

Tregeagle¹,

Moggach²,

Cox³

et al. 2014

Adoption & Fostering

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Children who hope to be adopted from the care system frequently experience delays, unproductive disruption in attachments and difficulties locating new families. This article seeks to contribute to the search for effective adoption practice by exploring an approach developed in Australia, whereby restoration and 'long-term foster care with the view to adoption' are undertaken intensively but sequentially. When the child cannot return home, adoption is one of the options considered but no decision is made until a long-term foster family is well established. While planning happens concurrently, placements never have dual purposes and are therefore different from what is known as concurrent planning.This study is based on an internal agency examination of adoption records over a 10-year period. Open adoptions were ultimately achieved for one-third of those who entered long-term care, and the children had a wide range of ages and included sibling groups and those with behavioural difficulties. Adoption took, on average, 4.4 years to finalise but there was wide variation in timeframes, with younger children being adopted more quickly. Perhaps most significantly, a permanent placement was found relatively soon for children of all ages, as they did not have to wait for a family willing to commit to adoption or endure lengthy legal proceedings. The adoption was most timely when both restoration and long-term care teams were managed within one Downloaded from agency (albeit in separate programmes). Furthermore, permanent families were located for children for whom adoption ultimately proved to be inappropriate.

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“…C'est le cas par exemple des enfants qui ont vécu quelques années avec leurs parents d'origine ou encore des enfants qui ont établi des liens significatifs avec leurs parents, sans pour autant que ces derniers ne soient en mesure d'assumer leurs responsabilités parentales. Les restrictions entourant les délais de mobilisation constituent également un enjeu de taille, tant pour les parents qui doivent composer avec la pression liée au temps accordé pour prouver leur capacité à reprendre leur enfant, que pour les intervenants qui doivent s'assurer de la disponibilité et de la dispensation des services dans les délais déterminés par la loi (Selwyn et Sturgess, 2002 ;Monck, Reynolds et Wigfall, 2004 ;Pellman et Patton, 2005 ;Frame, Berrick et Coakley, 2006 ;Cossar et Neil, 2010 ;Drapeau et al, 2012).…”

Section: Les Enjeux De La Planification Concurrenteunclassified

La famille d’accueil à vocation adoptive : enjeux et réflexions autour du modèle québécois

Châteauneuf

Lessard

2015

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Résumé Au Québec, les adoptions réalisées par les services de protection de l’enfance représentent une part importante du nombre total d’adoptions prononcées par les autorités judiciaires. Par contre, ce type d’adoption est peu connu du grand public et demeure très peu investi sur le plan de la recherche. Le présent article se penche sur le programme québécois Banque mixte (familles d’accueil à vocation adoptive) et met celui-ci en parallèle avec le modèle de planification concurrente développé aux États-Unis et au Royaume-Uni. La recension des écrits réalisée par les auteures permet de mieux comprendre les fondements et principes de ce modèle, mais aussi d’en dégager les enjeux et défis.

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Essential elements of implementing a system of concurrent planning

Cited by 13 publications

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Achieving Timely Adoption

Achieving Timely Adoption

A pathway from long-term care to adoption: findings from an Australian permanency programme

La famille d’accueil à vocation adoptive : enjeux et réflexions autour du modèle québécois

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