Have you ever been confused about when and for how long you can leave your foster child with a caregiver? Do you have to get permission from the social worker? Listen to this month's podcast with Emily Kaiser for an inside scoop on the reasoning behind the Reasonable and Prudent Parent Standard for the state of California and explore common applications. Emily Kaiser, LCSW, is not only an adoptive professional, but also an adoptive Mom and Auntie!

Show Notes:

Links to Additional Resources about The Reasonable and Prudent Parent Standard:

https://www.cdss.ca.gov/lettersnotices/entres/getinfo/acin/2013/I-17_13

https://www.cdss.ca.gov/lettersnotices/entres/getinfo/acl/2016/16-31.pdf

https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/caregiver-advocacy-network/reasonable-and-prudent-parent-standard

http://centervideo.forest.usf.edu/video/qpi/california/normalcy18/CA%20Normalcy%20Overview.pdf

Foster Youth Bill of Rights and Reasonable and Prudent Parenting Trainings

This training is for resource parents, STRTP staff, social workers, RFA/FFA Staff. Flyer with several 2022 training dates hosted by the CA Foster Care Ombudsman. Register Here

Bio:

Emily Kaiser, LCSW, is a valued Help One Child Trainer and Podcast and Blog contributor. Emily is currently launching the private adoption program for Koinonia Family Services. She has worked for the agency since 2009 primarily as the supervisor of the Sacramento office’s adoption and foster care programs. She is passionate about serving and preserving adoptive families. Emily and her husband Greg married in 2008 and began their journey as foster/adoptive parents in 2015. She wears many relevant hats as a social worker, adoptive mom, transracial adoptive parent, bio mom and even Auntie to adopted niece and nephew.

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