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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Five Maryland counties person been picked by the Maryland Department of Human Services to instrumentality portion successful a federally backed programme to enactment adopted children and foster families.
Baltimore, Carroll, Frederick, Prince George’s and Montgomery counties were selected by the authorities bureau to make a Center of Excellence for Foster Family Development.
This caller programme aims to person foster families stay successful interaction with their adopted child’s biologic parents and play a relation “in supporting parents’ efforts to regain custody of their children,” the bureau said successful a release.
“We are putting successful spot programs that enactment toward breaking the rhythm of multi-generational dependency,” Lourdes R. Padilla, caput of the Maryland Department of Human Services, said successful a statement. “By addressing the needs of the full family, we assistance guarantee that erstwhile children and parents permission our care, they person the tools needed to thrive.”
The authorities received a four-year assistance from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to motorboat the initiative.
Under this model, foster parents volition instrumentality grooming courses to promote children to larn prosocial behaviors and physique cooperation. Biological parents would larn to amended their parenting and societal skills.
All the adults would beryllium utilizing accordant strategies for raising a kid with the eventual extremity of having that kid instrumentality to his oregon her biologic parents.
On its website, the Maryland Department of Human Services said akin programs successful New York City resulted successful little rates of behavioral and affectional issues successful children and adolescents, little substance use, shorter stays successful foster attraction and much predominant reunification.
CBS Baltimore Staff
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