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Selected Resources
Family Reunification: What the Evidence Shows
Child Welfare Information Gateway (2006)
Examines States' successes and challenges related to family reunification; reviews research regarding factors contributing to timely, stable reunifications; and suggests several guiding principles for practice in this area of permanency planning.
Promising Practices in Reunification (PDF - 172 KB)
National Resource Center for Foster Care and Permanency Planning (2004)
Components of reunification programs that appear to achieve good results include placement decision-making, parent-child visiting, intensive services, resource parent/birth parent collaboration, and aftercare services.
Promising Practices in Child Welfare: Family Reunification: A Review Of Current Strategies (PDF - 107 KB)
Voices for America's Children (2004)
Effective strategies that help to support successful reunifications.
Reunification Resources
National Resource Center for Family-Centered Practice and Permanency Planning
A collection of resources related to family reunification.
What Works in Family Reunification
Maluccio (2000)
In: What Works in Child Welfare
Discusses effective family reunification programs, including intensive time-limited family-centered services, services for parents, parent-child contact during placement, cultural competence, psychosocial services for children, housing and income assistance, and involvement of the extended family.
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