Supporting Families Through Family Team Meetings

Supporting Families Through Family Team Meetings

I helped facilitate several Family Team Meetings fora family as they went from no parenting time to supervised parenting time. Dad eventually received unsupervised parenting time while the mother maintained supervised parenting time. I had the chance to talk with the...
A Family’s Journey Towards Restoration

A Family’s Journey Towards Restoration

A Family's Journey Towards Restoration In the spring of 2024, I received a call from a foster care supervisor asking if I had any openings in my schedule. The worker had just received a case and she wanted me to work with the parents. I met the parents at a family...
Building Lifelong Relationships through Mentorship

Building Lifelong Relationships through Mentorship

Building Lifelong Relationships  through Mentorship When I joined the Youth In Transition team, my role was to interact with unmatched youth. That’s when I met Samantha. I told her that I would meet with her twice a month. At the time, Samantha was a high school...
Lives Forever Changed

Lives Forever Changed

In late spring, I received a referral for a mother whose children were all under the age of four. As I began to understand the many needs of the family and outline the situation that had landed the children of this woman in foster care, my heart broke for her. In...

Mistakes in life do not mean you can’t achieve your dreams I met this client in the summer of 2023. He was a single dad who had been in prison and had not seen his daughter in 9 years. When he got out of prison, he got his life on track and reached out to the child’s...
Making Life Changes for the Family

Making Life Changes for the Family

In the PACT program, I had the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of my clients. My client was frustrated that she was stuck in the same old visitation room at MDDHS for every visit. She wondered why she didn’t have the right to take her children out...
Sometimes you just have to be there.

Sometimes you just have to be there.

When coming in as a new worker, it can indeed be challenging to pick up a case that someone else has previously handled. The family and child already developed a relationship and trust with the previous case worker, and you are an entirely new person to them. Honestly...

Stepping in to make a difference  This year, I was assigned a case our agency has held for some time. I was not the first foster care worker, but I made it my goal to be the last. I inherited some pretty big out-of-agency documenting errors in this case, but all hands...
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