Visitation
Best Practices in Dependency:Planned, Purposeful, and Progressive Visitation
Rose Wentz, Consultant for the National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice and Permanency Planning, discusses how to have safe and successful visits. Rose covers the definition of visits per federal law and best practice standards as well as the connections a child needs while in care. With audience interaction she reviews a four-step decision making process for developing a visit plan to meet a child's needs and enable parents to improve parenting skills. She also looks at how to develop a visit plan that will meet the goal of allowing children to have a safe visit in the most natural and home-like situation.
An Overview of Washington State Child Welfare Law Relating to Visitation
This overview by CITA Director Tim Jaasko-Fisher is intended to be a brief discussion of case and statutory law in Washington related to visitation in juvenile dependency cases. It does not address best practices, but rather is intended as a resource to help locate legal authority related to various issues which may arise when considering visitation plans under RCW 13.34. Click here to view.