BIRTH & FOSTER PARENT PARTNERSHIP

The Birth and Foster Parent Partnership is an innovative approach that creates authentic partnerships between parents who advocate for policy and practices that benefit children and families.

Reference Products

• Position Statement: Describes the innovative approach of the partnership.
• Policy Practice Priorities Brief: Collectively, the parents identified more than a dozen practices and policies that can be implemented to transform our current child welfare system to better serve children and their families in need of various supports – prevention, intervention, reunification and post reunification.
• Strategies Matrix: Includes strategies nationwide that the BFPP has collected to help birth parents and foster par-ents work together. The matrix includes the name and a description of the strategy, contact information and the locations where the strategy currently exists. Updated August 2018
  • Provide a strategy that is not in the current Strategies Matrix

News and Announcements

Building Bridges

An article published in the Chronicles of Social Change regarding the recent work of the Birth and Foster Parent Partnership in helping to improve relationships between birth parents and foster parents and ultimately create better outcomes for children and families. Interviews with China Darrington, BPNN parent from OH, Robyn Robbins, foster parent from CA involved in the Birth and Foster Parent Partnership and Jeremiah Donier, BPNN parent from WA.

Press Release


Birth and foster parent partnership working together to improve policies and practices for families and children.

Access the press release and circulate it within your communities.

Who we are...

The Birth & Foster Parent Partnership is designed to further Casey Family Program’s (CFP's) 2020 goals focused on the safe reduction of the number of youth in foster care. Its purpose is to increase coordination between birth parents and foster parent caregivers for improved permanency outcomes.

The partnership is managed through a collaboration between the National Alliance of Children’s Trust and Prevention Funds (Alliance), Youth Law Center Quality Parenting Initiative (YLC/QPI) and CFP.


2017 Birth and Foster Parent Convening, Seattle, Washington

Short and Long Term Impacts

• Increased involvement of birth parents and foster parents in advocacy for improved policies and practices that benefit families and childden.
• Identification of strategies to help birth parents and foster parents work together to facilitate reunification and prevent re-entry.
• Increased capacity of child welfare systems to recruit and retain foster parents willing and able to partner with birth parents.

Meeting Dates and Events

To access the call-in information, click on the date listed in the calendar below. Meeting time is in Pacific time zone




Meeting Materials

Members can access meeting materials.

Resources

Watch the presentation at the BPNN (Birth Parent National Network) monthly webinar where members presented about the partnership, the recent 2017 Convening, and its key themes of influence.

Check out other resources on the Alliance website such as:

• Alliance National Parent Partnership Council and Parent to Parent Info-graphics
• Community Cafes
• Birth Parent National Network
• BPNN Library Parent Partnership Resources