Pinebrook Family Answers offers an array of services to help the child and his or her family work through the problems that made placement necessary. Decisions about where to place a child in out-of-home care are made by considering the child’s strengths and needs, the skills of the available caretakers, and the child’s prospects for permanency with family placements. The primary goal of placement services is almost always to return a child to his or her own family. This is can be achieved through Pinebrook Family Answers Foster Care and Kinship services.
Pinebrook Family Answers is firmly committed to engaging parents as partners in their child’s ongoing care and development. Through active participation on the treatment team, frequent visitation and communication, and the planning and addressing of elements of the Service Plan, we believe we can help to facilitate goal attainment, including successful family reunification or an alternate permanency plan, in a timely manner.
Key to successful reunification is the development of an immediate family visitation plan by the treatment team. Pinebrook Family Answers Foster Care and Kinship Services offers up to weekly facilitative supervision of family visits either at one of the agency’s locations, the family’s home or another location within the community. In addition, Pinebrook Family Answers additional family visitation and supports including Visit Coaching services through the agency’s Transportation and Visitation program.
At times, reunification of a child with their own family cannot be accomplished due to many complex reasons. Permanency is the child’s right to have a safe and stable family and home life that will be able to support them into adulthood and beyond. This may mean placing a child with a recently located relative, initiating a legal guardianship agreement, or finding an adoptive placement for a child. Pinebrook Family Answers supports these efforts through their Adoption Services.
