In the Best Interest of the Child: Making the Most of Visitation

In the Best Interest of the Child: Making the Most of Visitation is a one-day, competency-based curriculum that explores parent-child visiting as a possible means of achieving timely and successful family reunification. It will also explore visitation-related factors that reduce length of stay, techniques for using visitation as therapeutic process, assessment and observation tools, and considerations when developing a visitation plan.

To view this curriculum's table of contents and a list of the competencies it addresses, click here.

In the Best Interest of the Child: Making the Most of Visitation is currently offered free of charge to social workers from North Carolina departments of social services. To learn more about class times and registration for this course go to ncswLearn.org, a site where North Carolina's human services professionals can discover and engage in the learning opportunities provided by the NC Division of Social Services.

If you work in child welfare outside of North Carolina and you are interested in learning more about this curriculum, please contact the Resource Program's training coordinator, Amy Ramirez (t: 919/962-4365; e: aramirez@email.unc.edu).