{"id":7912,"date":"2022-04-11T22:29:29","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T22:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/supported-virtual-family-time-program-well-received-and-still-available\/"},"modified":"2022-04-11T22:29:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T22:29:29","slug":"supported-virtual-family-time-program-well-received-and-still-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/supported-virtual-family-time-program-well-received-and-still-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Supported Virtual Family Time Program well-received and still available"},"content":{"rendered":"

The one-hour Supported Virtual Family Time (SVFT)\u00a0E-Learning was developed as a response to COVID-19. The program\u00a0provides online training, guidance, and resources to prepare Family Time supervisors to support parents and caregivers and facilitate positive remote visits between parents and their children in out-of-home care.<\/p>\n

To date, 136 individuals have completed the training. The Supportive Virtual Family Time training has been very well received by participants. As one participant wrote:\u00a0\u201cWatching the example of the meeting between foster parent and biological dad was helpful to get an idea of my role in it and how that would look.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Supportive Virtual Family Time program\u00a0<\/a>creates structure, guidance, and training for those supervising virtual parent-child visits, with the goal of helping them facilitate positive remote supervised visits between parents and their children in out-of-home care. The program and training is geared toward both private agency supervised visitation providers as well as child welfare caseworkers who will be supervising these virtual visits.<\/p>\n

The components of the Supportive Virtual Family Time Program include structure, guidance and suggested scripts for:<\/p>\n

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  1. A virtual meeting with the parent(s) before virtual family time takes place\u00a0(30 minutes)<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. A virtual meeting with the foster or relative caregiver(s) before virtual family time takes place\u00a0(30 minutes)<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. A family time partnership meeting between the parent(s), foster\/relative caregiver(s) before virtual family time takes place\u00a0(1 hour)<\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. A debriefing with the parent(s) and the foster\/relative caregiver(s) after the virtual family time takes place\u00a0(15 minutes for each or 30 minutes together)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    To summarize, the total amount of time for a family time\/visit supervisor to do this work includes:<\/p>\n