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It explains how federal reviews evaluated Permanency Outcome 2 through case reviews and practice areas, highlights key performance results across states, and draws attention to benefits of preserving connections when children enter foster care. The spotlight also outlines practice strengths, concerns, and change opportunities for courts and legal professionals.","CFSR Spotlight Series   \nfor the Legal & Judicial Communities  \nPromoting and Maintaining Family Relationships and Connections  \nCapacity Building Center for Courts | U.S. Children’s Bureau Child & Family Services Review Round 3  \nThis spotlight is drawn from CFSR Round 3 Report for Legal and Judicial Communities, which summarizes states’performance in meeting safety, permanency, and well-being needs of children and families as a result of the federal Child and Family Services Reviews (CFSRs) conducted between 2015 – 2018. The report shares results in four areas in which the legal and judicial communities play a key role: achieving timely permanency, promoting and maintaining family relationships and connections (this spotlight), meaningfully engaging families, and keeping families together.  \nWhat the Federal Reviews Assessed  \nThe federal review assessed states’efforts to promote and maintain family relationships and connections using the following information:  \nPerformance on  \nPermanency Outcome 2:  \nThe continuity of family relationships and connections is preserved for children.  \nCase reviews in five practice areas associated  \nwith Permanency Outcome 2: placement with siblings, family time with parents and siblings, preserving connections, relative placement, and relationship of child in care with parents.  \nWhen a child is removed from home and placed in the child welfare system,  \nmaintaining the child’s family connections can have the following benefits:*  \n✔ lessen the traumatic impact of removal, family separation, and loss for the child;  \n✔ improve the child’s and parent’s emotional well-being;  \n✔ increase the likelihood of reunification and achievement of timely permanency for the child;  \n✔ support the child’s healthy development, secure attachments, and sense of self;  \n✔ reduce behavioral problems by the child;  \n✔ lower levels of depression in children; and  \n✔ help the child adjust to out-of-home placement.  \n* See Children’s Bureau (2020) . IM-20-02 . U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families. [https://www.acf.hhs.gov/cb/policy-guidance/im-20-02](https://www.acf.hhs.gov/cb/policy-guidance/im-20-02)[ ](https://www.acf.hhs.gov/cb/policy-guidance/im-20-02)Round 3 of the federal government’s Child and Family Services Reviews (CFSRs) assessed how well states preserve family relationships and connections for children in the child welfare system. 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