PARTNERSHIP PARENTS

Presenter: Deborah Burrus, Permanency Director

Presentation to: CPAs and DFCS Resource Development Staff

Date: December 10, 2013

Georgia Department of Human Services

Vision, Mission and Core ValuesVision

Stronger Families for a Stronger Georgia.

MissionStrengthen Georgia by providing Individuals and Families access to services that promote self-sufficiency, independence, and protect Georgia's vulnerable children and adults.

Core Values• Provide access to resources that offer support and empower Georgians and

their families. • Deliver services professionally and treat all clients with dignity and respect.

Manage business operations effectively and efficiently by aligning resources across the agency.

• Promote accountability, transparency and quality in all services we deliver and programs we administer.

• Develop our employees at all levels of the agency.

PARTNESHIP PARENTS

• Foster Parents• Provide temporary care• Work in partnership with birth families• Act as mentors• Share parenting responsibilities through “parenting

opportunities.

“Parenting Opportunities”

• Favorable times, occasions, situations or conditions which allow a parent to safely teach, support, nurture, discipline care for or guide children.

ADOPTIVE PARENT

• Forever families• Make a lifetime commitment to a child• Serve children totally free for adoption ( parental

rights have been terminated or surrendered)

Adoptive Parent-Legal Risk

• Serve Children not totally legally free for adoption• Children have an adoption goal

RESOURCE PARENT

• Hybrid type of a foster and adoptive parent• Act as both parntership parent and adoptive parent• Children placed have a concurrent plan• At least one of the goals is adoption• Must be able to “concurrently fulfill the roles of

being a Partnership Parent and an Adoptive Parent.

• Reunification• Adoption• Guardianship• Placement with Fit and Willing

Relative

Concurrent Plan

Concurrent Planning

• Relative or Non-Relative

• Child is unlikely to return home

• TPR is not in the child’s best interest and Adoption is impractical or inappropriate

• Placement is stable and in the best interest of the child.

Resource Parent vs. Legal Risk Parent

RESORTING OF FAMILIES

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