When we went through our home study process we discussed our second Eco Map with the DCS Home Study Evaluator. By the time we developed our second Eco Map we not only had answers to those questions but had a better sense of who and what our resources really were. This realization made us both eager to bring the topic up with our family members so we had a better answer. It showed us that we weren’t sure how our extended family members would take our journey into the foster care system. As we drew the Eco Map we found out something about ourselves and the relationships we had with our family. The first time we drew an Eco Map for our family we felt a little timid not quite knowing who we should include and how we should describe our relationships with friends, family, work colleagues and acquaintances.
My take-away has always been that DCS wants to make sure foster parents have resources so that when it feels like the world is falling down around us we have people we can turn to. Essentially DCS wants an idea of the type of resources that prospective foster parents have. When we completed the exercise we had to give a copy to our PATH Trainer so a copy would be in our file. What I loved about this exercise was that it gave Rent-a-Dad and I an idea of who our support network would be. Remember Eco Maps represent a snap shot in time as Eco Maps evolve and change over time. Developing an Eco Map for a child in care can take time and birth families sometimes do not respond well to this process. What the process looks like for DCS as they create the same Eco Map for the child in care.Who they consider to be their resources and how effective they consider their resources to be, and.This exercise is meant to show prospective foster parents two things: When performing this training exercise in the PATH classes, the Family Eco Map created pertains to the foster parents and their resources. The link provided describes this process as it related to the foster children and their family. One of my favorite training exercises was creating a Family Eco Map.
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