Family Link is a system-wide effort to promote communication and shared parenting practices between resource and birth parents for the benefit of children in the DC foster care system. Please read on for more information about Family Link's various initiatives and other shared parenting resources.

(Note: The term resource parent is used to refer to foster, kinship and adoptive parents.)

Find more information below about some of the shared parenting resources throughout the DC child welfare system.

• Family Link flyer

ADDITIONAL FAMILY LINK RESOURCES: 

• Tip Sheets
• Family Link Icebreakers (45-60 minute meetings at CFSA) 
• Peer Support Group for Resource Parents 
• Customized Individual Support

For more information about Family Link, please email us at [email protected].