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Family Search & Engagement Training & Workshops

A child’s inalienable right...Family.
What would you want for your child?

Family Search & Engagement (FSE) is a set of practices designed to locate, engage, connect, and support family resources for youth. A major goal of this practice is to move youth from a place where they don’t hear “I love you” to a place where they can hear it and feel it everyday. This comes from family, relatives, and others who love them.  Frequently these youths are involved in the child welfare system, have experienced multiple placements with non-relatives and have lost contact with their extended family members.

This training/workshop is intended to support the implementation of these complex practices by providing both an identification of the issues and activities involved and a variety of practical tools to assist the practitioner in the day-to-day work. It is the product of a collaborative process among agencies, practitioners, family members, and youth who have experienced the practice.

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Guide to Family Search and Engagement 

Permanence for Young People Measures 
The National Resource Center suggests measures that states should use around permanency planning.

Permanence for Young People Framework 
The National Permanence Framework developed by the NRC and Casey Center for Effective Child Welfare Practices.

Tools for Family Tracing and Social Reintegration 
After the Rwanda genocide, NGOs used family tracing techniques to locate extended family member survivors.

A Mother's Story
“ CCS helped me to find the strength to believe in a better tomorrow."

Family Preservation Services finds Solutions
A snap shot of the Family Preservation System within CCSWW (2001)

Family Assessment and Stabilization Team; FAST 

FAST Program Provides Connections for Youth and Families
FAST-Family Access to Stabilization and Teaming a report on the outcomes of the first two years (2003).

Lighting the Fire of Urgency… Families Lost and Found in America’s Child Welfare System.
What we might learn from resources outside of child welfare.

Who Am I? Why Family Really Matters.
Why families need their children and children need their families.

Family Preservation Guiding Principles

Family Preservation Mission, Values and Guiding Priciples

Family Preservation System Provides School-based Services
CCS Family Preservation Services (FPS) in Vancouver has begun to provide school-based services for high school students, with a home-based component for parents and families.

Grandfamilies: Subsidized Guardianship Programs

CASA of Orange County