Accomplishing Permanency: Reunification Pathways and Outcomes for Foster Children
Reunification is a primary goal of foster care systems and the most common permanency planning decision.�It is�defined as the return of children placed in protective care to the home of their birth family and used to describe the act of restoring a child in out-of-home care back to the biological fa...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2013.
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| Series: | SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research,
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| Online Access: | View fulltext via EzAccess |
| Summary: | Reunification is a primary goal of foster care systems and the most common permanency planning decision.�It is�defined as the return of children placed in protective care to the home of their birth family and used to describe the act of restoring a child in out-of-home care back to the biological family.� Yet reunification decision-making and the process of reintegrating children into birth families remains under researched. This Brief takes a look at family reunification knowledge and research in Australia where�there is�evidence that most children placed in protective care are eventually reunited with their birth parents.�It explores how a knowledge of reunification decision making and outcomes can contribute to strengthening practice and informing policy formulation and program planning in Child Welfare. |
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| Physical Description: | XIV, 154 p. 24 illus. online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9789400750920 |
| ISSN: | 2211-7644 |