Buy or borrow a camera

        ---Take a picture wherever you can. It’s a great relationship building activity.  Don’t forget to grab a photo of you and the child.

        --- Feeling rich? Or work for a generous agency? Buy an instamatic camera and give it to the child to take pictures.

        --- Bring the camera to court or on birth parents visits. If you can give that child a photo of their biological parent it is a gift of a lifetime. Always assume that any contact with a birth parent might be your last. Even if the goal is reunification.

        --- Nag your agency to purchase a camera and then reimburse you for printing.

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