Outcome 6: Increase Permanency for Adolescents
Context of Measure
In September 1999, ACS adopted a set of Permanency Principles that articulated its philosophy toward serving families and children. These principles are tools that offer the agency a framework for directing policy, formulating practice guidelines and protocols, and developing staff training.
The central tenets of ACS’s Permanency Principles state that all children deserve safe, nurturing permanent families who can provide an unconditional, lasting commitment to them, and that children and families deserve services that meet their needs. To this end, effort is made to keep foster children’s families engaged in planning for services so that children can return safely to their homes as soon as possible. The agency also commits substantial resources toward expediting the adoption process so as to achieve timely, permanent placement for children whose parents cannot provide a stable and nurturing environment. The goal of permanency now infuses all service interventions that make up the New York City child welfare system.
All foster children, ideally, should be discharged to a permanent family, either their families, relatives, or adoptive families. However, foster children, as they grow older, often discover that the possibilities of returning to their parents or of being adopted diminish. This outcome aims to provide a measure of the foster care system’s success at moving adolescents (ages 12 years and older) into permanent, stable homes.
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