Family Partnership Meeting Facilitation

The Family Partnership Meeting (FPM) model is based on the team decision-making (TDM) model developed by Annie E. Casey Family to Family Initiative. The FPM model, when faithfully implemented, provides a powerful, trauma-informed, engagement tool for partnering with families and other support networks. The FPM is a team approach for partnering with family members and other support networks in decision-making throughout the family’s involvement with the child welfare system. The FPM allows for a transparent, genuine, facilitated discussion around agency and family concerns. It focuses the group on co-discovering and developing functional strengths and protective capacity that are utilized in the creation of the FPM Action Plan. The FPM model and process assists the family, service worker, and support network by utilizing a trauma-lens to identify and assess needs. These must be met to achieve safety, well-being, permanency, and life-long connections for the child and family. The goal in each FPM is to reach consensus on a live-decision regarding placement, and to create a plan of change which protects the child in the least intrusive, or restrictive environment. The FPM improves the decision-making process by including families, service workers, foster families, private agencies, and support networks. When families are genuinely engaged and treated with respect, they contribute more effectively to the identification of their child and family’s needs. Being a part of the decision-making process, families are more likely to participate in services to keep their family together, and to complete tasks in order to have their child safely returned home. By ensuring the family, service worker, and team all have the same information in the FPM regarding safety concerns and family strengths, the team is best able to plan for the safety and well-being of the child.
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