The language of family finding is evolving in response to years of learning from practice and research.
The family finding name itself came from these central questions:
Is it true this child has no one?
Is it true this child has no father?
Is it true this parent has no one who will help today or tomorrow?
In envisioning our future, what would our practice look like, and how would relationships and experiences change, if we were to abandon approaches that separate and make small the people for whom these systems exist? What untapped potential could be unlocked if we saw restoring humanity to our work as critical to the safety and healing of all involved?
Our view of the foster care crisis highlights challenge and opportunity. We have seen that separating children from their families and moving them from ‘bad’ parents and relatives to ‘better’ foster and adoptive homes further harms the children we are charged with protecting. We serve these children better when we help them build protective relationships with relatives and others offering unconditional love with safety and healing.
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