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Originally Posted by one-lucky-mom
Hi everyone!
Quick question -- FD's maternal grandma told me at the foster care review board meeting today that the caseworker had approached her & FD's dad to get a pretty lengthy family history. She said the caseworker had told her it was mandatory and it had something to do with genealogy.
I haven't had a chance to ask the CW -- but why would they need this information 3 months after FD came into custody? Wouldn't they have asked for that upfront when she came into care? They did get a brief medical history, but that's it. Grandma thinks they may be trying to "adopt her out". This is a first for me.
Any thoughts?? Thanks!  |
A "Structured Family History" is part of many of our special education comprehensive evaluations, especially for preschool and K students. I have read on another site about doing a family tree kind of thing to assess the level of support in a family--it can help determine how much support parents have to care for their children. I forget what it the term is for this-it was very enlightening, it was like a graphic organizer and showed he connections between and among all family members and assgined a value to each relationship, positive or negative. There was a thread talking about this a few weeks back if you want to search the archives a bit.
Them's my thoughts-