"PLEASE NOTE; this item is for the purchase of the post-test and CE certificate only."

The Understanding the Story: Family Mosaics video series reveals the efforts required to build this trust. Each mosaic tells one family’s story from three perspectives. In a mosaic, where individual pieces come together to form a vivid picture, looking at only one piece by itself doesn’t show you all there is to see. In the same way, different perspectives within a family come together to tell a more complete story of what is needed to support family well-being.

Partner the mosaics with activities in the discussion guide to build a common understanding of what it means to see foster care as a support to families, not a substitute for parents. Individuals can use activities to reflect on how to sharpen relationship-building skills, and teams can use activities to identify the barriers to working in partnership, find collective solutions, and check in overtime to monitor practice change. Each of the five activities can be used alone or combined in a series.

Activity 1: Individuals can use activity one to reflect on the value of having multiple perspectives, assumptions that may result from a lack of perspectives, and the importance of building trusting relationships.