Reunification Visitation Minimums
The number of times a week a child ages 0-2 should visit with their parents
What is 2?
The time frame for which visitation documentation has to be entered in GA Shines
What is 72 hours?
Parents who visit frequently with their children have the best chance of this outcome
What is reunification?
What should increase as the case progresses closer to reunification?
What is frequency and duration of visits?
Formal visitations typically take place at
What is the DFCS Office or Visitation Centers?
The number of times children ages 3-5 should visit with their parents each week
What is 1?
Where initial and ongoing efforts to place siblings together that are placed in separate foster homes are documented in GA Shines
What is Log of Contacts?
Involving foster parents in developing and planning parent-child visits promotes what type of foster parent parenting
What is partnership parenting?
A thorough assessment of a proposed visitation resource is
What is a Visiting Resource Evaluation?
Informal sibling visitation opportunities allow siblings to bond naturally and take place at
What is birthday parties, sleepovers, school, church and other community events?
At minimum, parents should be offered what type of frequency of visitation with their children?
What is bi-weekly?
Where the Supervisor documents discussions regarding the preservation of sibling connections
What is the Case Staffing?
Outside of face-to-face visits, what other type of visitation is encouraged when safe and appropriate to do so?
What is telephone contact?
Family members, friends, or fictive kin with an approved home evaluation with whom the child can visit with in their home overnight
What is a Visiting Resource?
The type of visit that occurs when there is direct oversight of the interaction between the parent and child
What is a supervised visit?
The number of days, at the most, that a child should have to wait to have a visit with their parents after they enter foster care
What is 7?
Where visitation plans are documented in GA Shines
What is the Visitation Plan?
The longest lasting relationship that most people have
What is the sibling relationship?
An individual with whom a child shares one or both parents in common by blood, adoption or marriage, even if the marriage was terminated by death or divorce
What is a sibling?
The type of visit that takes place using a smartphone or computer
What is a virtual visit?
The time frame in which the Visitation Plan section of the Case Plan has to be approved by the Court
What is 30?
Where Visiting Resource Evaluations are documented in GA Shines
Where is the Log of Contacts?
Siblings that aren't initially placed together or who are separated thereafter should have phone contact within how many hours?
What is within 48 hours of seperation?
A person that is known to the child as a relative, but is not in fact related to the child
What is Fictive Kin?
The type of visit that occurs when no oversight of the parent and child is provided
What is an unsupervised visit?