Sentences with phrase «reunification programs»

Time for Reform: Investing in Prevention: Keeping Children Safe at Home (PDF - 475 KB) Kids Are Waiting (2007) Highlights prevention and reunification programs that have shown promising results and describes Federal legislative efforts to support these practices.

For families in child welfare, it has been recommended that a targeted approach to service delivery is necessary for prevention and reunification programs, in which services are not universal but are designed to meet the unique needs of families (Littell & Schuerman, 2002).

Review of Parent Education Models for Family Reunification Programs (PDF - 369 KB) Cutler Institute, Muskie School of Public Service (2010) Presents a matrix of parent education models used in family reunification programs that includes a model description and information on target audience, targets of intervention, level of research evidence, child welfare outcomes, required training and fidelity monitoring, and program cost.

As I said earlier, responding to situations of parental alienation has fostered a North American cottage industry in reunification programs, and, as I learned reviewing the case law for my paper, not all are created equal.

Now, I am not saying that reunification programs are wrong - headed; many of them are not.

Home Free Family reunification program provides free bus tickets to eligible runaway and homeless youth.

As part of the Petlink pet reunification program, we may release your personal information to any licensed animal professional facility (veterinarian, shelter, rescue or municipal animal control agency) or in response to an inquiry by law enforcement.

Secondly, there is the trickier issue of picking the right reunification program.

In light of that conclusion, the ONCA held that the issue of whether the younger son's forced participation in the reunification program amounted to treatment and required his consent under the Health Care Consent Act did not need to be addressed.

Following a lengthy arbitration in which he determined that the mother had undertaken a campaign of parental alientation, the arbitrator awarded custody of the two sons to the father and ordered the father to attend a reunification program with the children.

The panel will explore the means that parents, attorneys, and parenting professionals utilize to direct certain parental alienation cases toward a reunification program, focusing specifically on the Family Bridges model.

When a family is placed in the reunification program, they work with staff members to develop goals to address the safety concerns that originally brought their child (ren) into care.

Not exact matches

The quest for reunification is disputed by some North Korean experts who see Kim's nuclear program as primarily a means of retaining power and don't think he would threaten or forcibly try to take over South Korea.

They also wrote that the resettlement program «is already extremely thorough» and that most of those being resettled «are family reunification cases,» meaning they are coming to be with family members who are already living in the country.

Please pray for God's intervention with all families — particularly those struggling with alcohol, drug abuse, and mental illness — to enable them to successfully complete programs for recovery, and allow the reunification of foster children with safe and caring birth families.

Many former child soldiers do not have access to the educational programs, vocational training, family reunification, or even food and shelter that they need to successfully rejoin civilian society.

Sheltering needs for designated shelters for owned pets and programs supporting their reunification

Placer County SPCA The Placer SPCA is a private, not - for - profit organization (located in Roseville and serving all of Placer County), dedicated to improving the lives of animals and people through programs and services, such as adoption, reunification, spay / neuter assistance, humane education and behavior programs.

She has a family reunification counselling program for alienated children which often gets mixed reviews.

Many of these programs purport to provide «reunification» or «reintegration» therapy, either in an overnight or day camp format or in a series of intense group and individual counselling sessions.

The multicultural fabric of the nation is built upon the diversity of immigration programs such as economic, refugee, humanitarian, and family reunification.

In the case, the change in guardianship was accompanied by an intensive family reunification therapy program.

The Parent Partner program enlists as staff mothers and fathers who have experienced child removal, services, and reunification.

Partnering With Parents: Promising Approaches to Improve Reunification Outcomes for Children in Foster Care Anthony, Berrick, Cohen, & Wilder (2009) View Abstract and Document Describes a program in Contra Costa County, CA, that trains parents who have experienced child removal, services, and reunification to provide direct services to parent clients seeking reunification with their children.

Engaging Parents: Innovative Approaches in Child Welfare (PDF - 167 KB) Marcenko, Brown, DeVoy, & Conway (2010) Protecting Children, 25 (1) Describes two innovative approaches to parent engagement, including the Parent Mentoring Program, which helps families achieve reunification.

Exceptionally, the New South Wales Government has pledged $ 100,000 to be granted to Link - Up New South Wales, for one year only [97], and the Queensland Government has announced, without details, that it is to develop a «specifically targeted cross-cultural awareness training program to assist reunification of members of the stolen generations with their families and culture and promote understanding of Indigenous culture within the non-Indigenous families involved» and has employed an individual to work on the project [98].

Impact: Helping Parents Navigate a Complex System The Children's Village Outlines a New York State program designed to support and empower parents as they seek reunification with their children in foster care.

Programs towards reunification, where possible This involves a focus on the reunification of the child and the birth family.

Our program offers child - development education, family safety training, parenting skills and readiness for reunification between parents and children.

The following resources offer examples of best practices and innovative programs that help to prevent children or youth from reentering foster care once reunification has occurred.

Failure to protect Faith - based programs Family assessment Family - centered practice Family - centered services Family engagement Family foster care Family group conferencing Family group decision - making Family preservation Family Preservation and Support Services Program Act of 1993 (P.L. 103 - 66) Family resource centers Family reunification Family strengthening Family support groups Family support services Family violence Family visitation Fatalities (See also Child abuse fatalities.)

Research on the reunification of adolescents with families after placement found the amount of face - to - face contact to be one of the most important characteristics of the service correlated with program success Lewis, Walton, & Fraser, 1995; Savas, Epstein, & Grasso, 1993).

This course examines states» successes and challenges related to family reunification, as documented in the Federal Child and Family Services Reviews; reviews research regarding factors contributing to timely, stable reunifications; offers specific program examples that illustrate these factors; and uses all of the above to suggest several guiding principles for practice in this critical area of permanency planning.

The parent partner program provides parents with mentors who offer advice, coaching, and guidance on how to navigate and comply with these services and the processes necessary for court - supported reunification with their children.

This webinar will provide child welfare professionals with an overview of parent partner programs and explore how these programs benefit parents and children and ultimately support reunification.

A Decade of Hope: How Communities Across America Are Keeping Children Safe and Families Strong Casey Family Programs (2015) Highlights initiatives funded and supported by Casey Family Programs to keep children safe, make families strong, promote the safe reunification of children in foster care, and build supportive communities.

Highlights initiatives funded and supported by Casey Family Programs to keep children safe, make families strong, promote the safe reunification of children in foster care, and build supportive communities.

Though there is evidence that the impact of parent criminality on child maladjustment can be mediated by parenting practices, there are few programs to promote positive parenting or support the reunification of incarcerated parents and their children after prison.

The goals of the program are threefold: to increase the likelihood of family reunification after release and whenever appropriate, reduce recidivism; support family nurturing skills; and create the framework for healthy parent, child and partner relationships.

DCFS contacted Casey Family Programs» Yakima Field Office in April 2015 to assist with this reunification.

Eckerd Family Visitation Services is a therapeutic supervised visitation program for parents who, through court order, have been removed from their children due to child abuse or neglect and are working toward reunification.

Note: This study was not used for rating the Strengthening Families Program (SFP) in the Parent Training Programs that Address Problem Behaviors in Children and Adolescents topic area or the Parent Training Programs that Address Child Abuse and Neglect topic area since it evaluated reunification as the outcome, not problem behaviors.

An analysis of the impact of the Strengthening Families Program on family reunification in child welfare.

Type of prevention consisting of activities targeted to families in which abuse has already occurred and include early intervention and targeted services, such as individual, group, and family counseling; parenting education - such as Parent - Child Interactive Therapy (PCIT); community and social services referrals for substance abuse treatment, domestic violence services, psychiatric evaluations, and mental health treatment; infant safe - haven programs; family reunification services (including follow - up care programs for families after a child has been returned); temporary child care; etc..

The HOPE Program also offers treatment approaches for family reunification and safety planning.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the costs and effects of a federally funded implementation of the Strengthening Families Program (SFP) on time to reunification with a substance - involved child welfare population.

Building Bridges Together: Bridge Resource Families: Strengthening Families, Helping Children Stay Connected (PDF - 234 KB) Oklahoma Department of Human Services, Children and Family Services Division (2008) Describes requirements and expectations for being a Bridge Resource Family in Oklahoma's Bridge Family program, which is designed to provide a placement resource committed to working with a child's birth family toward the goal of reunification, or, if reunification fails, to raising / parenting the child.

Shifting CSEC cases from the juvenile justice system to the child welfare system provides exploited youth and their families with supportive services and programs not typically available through probation departments, including parenting skills programs and family reunification efforts.

Currently we have a wide breadth of over 350 personnel including: educational facilitators, family intervention generalists, family preservation workers, family support workers, interpreters, kinship support workers, parental support workers, psychologists, social workers, therapists, workplace support specialists, youth intervention specialists, and youth reunification workers.Each year we proudly serve over 20,000 people, in addition to over 100 corporate and government clients as a member of the Family Services Employee Assistance Program (FSEAP) network.

[** hostile - aggressive parenting, enmeshment, intrusive parenting, intractable hostilities, high conflict, etc.] The recent rise of lucrative PAS therapies, including Warshak's Bridges program, residential camps, court - ordered custody - switches based on Gardner's threat therapy ideas, various reunification therapies (for which there are no adequately researched protocols), and other ad - hoc money - making practices of many psychologists who for a fee profess to offer services that will engineer affectionate relationships between estranged parents and non-compliant children, veer uncomfortably close at times in theory and some of their practices to the dangerous, cultic and discredited «attachment» therapies of decades past, i.e. in many cases, they are child abuse.