The Child Welfare Information Gateway has a new web page with resources to help professionals and parents support and promote normal childhood experience for youth in foster care. The page highlights the provision of the 2014 Strengthening Families Act that allows caregivers and foster parents to use a reasonable and prudent parent standard as they make decisions to allow young people to participate in age-appropriate activities that were too often off-limits for youth in care.

Click here to visit the page.
https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/outofhome/resources-foster-families/parenting/normalcy/?utm_source=Professionals&utm_campaign=a548505968-E_Notes_July_2016_06_29_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_9bab4b66b7-a548505968-292369425