Resource Family Approval means that you are able to provide temporary or permanent care for youth in the child welfare system. Most of the time, the goal when a child enters foster care is to reunify the child with the birth parents or extended family. This means a resource parent's role is to help prepare children for reuniting with their family. All children have a concurrent permanent plan. This means that an alternative permanent plan (e.g. adoption by their resource parent) is identified if reunification with the birth parents, or placement with relatives, is not possible. The preferred concurrent plans are adoption or guardianship. The child's foster resource family may be considered as an adoptive family.