Birth and Foster Parent Partnership: A Relationship Building Guide; Practical tips to help create and sustain positive lasting relationships between birth families, foster families and kinship caregivers to best support the children and youth in their care

If you are a birth parent, foster parent or kinship caregiver, you can use this guide to help build respectful and supportive relationships with one another to best meet the needs of the children or youth in care, strengthen their families and support reunification and post reunification and other alternative placements. If you are a staff member or parent partner, we hope you will introduce this guide to birth and foster parents/kinship caregivers as you work with them. In addition, we know that all families have a culture and traditions that they follow. It is important to know, understand and respect each family’s cultural background, beliefs and practices. It is equally important to respect the values, identification (e.g., ethnic, sexual orientation, etc.) and beliefs of individual children and youth in care. The guide includes recommendations from and for birth parents and foster parents/kinship caregivers on ways they can build stronger relationships to meet the needs of the child or youth and also work collaboratively with the child welfare worker and other service providers.

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