Sentences with phrase «when reunification»

Child welfare agencies are responsible for identifying safe and permanent homes for the children in their care, either by safely reunifying children with their parents or through adoption when reunification is not possible.

When reunification can not be successfully achieved, permanency is often found with relatives or adoptive families or through strong relationships or connections with siblings and caring adults.

One study designed to understand why reunifications fail identified the following case activities as essential parts of the reunification process: quality assessments including whether and when reunification should occur, quality case plans, family engagement, service coordination, family compliance with case plans, family readiness, and post-reunification services and monitoring.

Finally, many child welfare systems haven't figured out how to balance the fact that while we don't want courts to create legal orphans, we also don't want children to wait unnecessarily long when an adoptive home is available and when reunification is not possible.

But when reunification is not going to be possible, we need to move towards some kind of legal or relational permanency for the child.

Working with foster children and their family members when reunification with the family is the plan of care and / or preparing the family and child (ren) for an alternative plan of permanent care

Not exact matches

One of the very greatest acts of statesmanship in the postwar world was when the founding chancellor of the German Federal Republic (West Germany), Konrad Adenauer, declined Stalin's offer of reunification in exchange for German neutrality in the Cold War.

And that is a reunification that is possible only when doctrinal unity has first been achieved.

On this fiftieth anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem, thanks are also due to the Israeli authorities for the care they have taken to make genuine pilgrimage possible throughout the Holy City, which is far more open to people of all faiths today than it was when the city was divided between 1948 and 1967.

When a family reunification is unlikely in a reasonable time period, we pray that God's hand guides the judges at the termination of parental rights trials to make their decision in the child's best interest.

When separated, children fixate on reunification with the attachment figure and are often worried that this person has been harmed (eg, in a car accident, by a serious illness).

When separation is forced, these children are distressfully preoccupied with reunification.

However, when a child experiences acute trauma at home, living outside the home and within residential care is sometimes the best place to support children and families during the reunification process.

They read the ultimatum for Democratic reunification from the state Party at the same time everyone else did, which was when it hit their inbox.

The governor was asked about the race when he spoke with reporters after the Senate Democrats» reunification announcement on Wednesday.

«The law bars family reunification when a citizen's spouse is a non-Jewish citizen of Iran, Iraq, Syria, or Lebanon.

The Governor was asked about the race when he spoke with reporters after the Senate Democrats» reunification announcement on Wednesday.

The announcement marked the culmination of talks that began in November, when both conferences tentatively agreed to a deal that was designed to produce reunification after the special elections, which could give Democrats a numerical majority in the chamber.

Some see an advantage in waiting to push reunification until closer to the 2018 election, when challenges to IDC members will solidify and Democrats will be rallying to win Congressional seats.

After reunification in 1990 he was not surprised to learn that the Stasi held a file on him, but was shocked that it was not for his correspondence with artists in the east when he was an adult, but his activities when at school.

The Court further pointed out that as «the duration of an asylum procedure may be relevant and that, in particular in periods of substantial surges in applications for international protection, the time laid down by EU law are often exceed it» making the right to family reunification depend upon the moment when the asylum procedure is closed would de facto have the effect of nullifying that right and the protection under Article 10 (3)(a)(para 57).

Child welfare legal custody can be a useful approach to permanency when adoption and reunification are not viable.

81 It is for the competent national authorities, when implementing Directive 2003/86 and examining applications for family reunification, to make a balanced and reasonable assessment of all the interests in play, taking particular account of the interests of the children concerned.

79 It is true that Articles 7 and 24 of the Charter, while emphasising the importance for children of family life, can not be interpreted as depriving the Member States of their margin of appreciation when examining applications for family reunification (see, to that effect, Parliament v Council, paragraph 59).

«When the application for family reunification is submitted, the Member State concerned may require the person who has submitted the application to provide evidence that the sponsor has:

80 However, in the course of such an examination and when determining in particular whether the conditions laid down in Article 7 (1) of Directive 2003/86 are satisfied, the provisions of that directive must be interpreted and applied in the light of Articles 7 and 24 (2) and (3) of the Charter, as is moreover apparent from recital 2 in the preamble to and Article 5 (5) of that directive, which require the Member States to examine the applications for reunification in question in the interests of the children concerned and with a view to promoting family life.

When he was finally free to go, he headed to the reunification site where parents were told to go to meet up with their kids.

Postdeployment reunification also poses challenges; disruptions that have occurred must often be repaired in the context of heightened emotions on the part of each family member at a time when fathers are themselves readjusting to the routines and responsibilities of family life.

Taken together, these findings suggest that concurrent planning may more naturally occur when children are in the potentially permanent homes of relatives who support their reunification with their biological parents.

We can help parents understand how the child felt when they were sent away and prepare the parents on what adjustments to expect upon reunification.

Dagan and Ailon (2015) offer a checklist for therapists when consulting with lawyers to set up the process of reunification therapy.

As defined in the Child and Family Services Reviews, a child in foster care is determined to have achieved permanency when any of the following occurs: (1) The child is discharged from foster care to reunification with his or her family, either a parent or other relative; (2) the child is discharged from foster care to a legally finalized adoption; or (3) the child is discharged from foster care to the care of a legal guardian.

When family buy - in is achieved, reunification rates are improved and overall family outcomes are better.

Required States to specify situations when services to prevent foster placement and reunification of families are not required

Family reunification in law, policy, and practice Family reunification can be viewed from multiple perspectives, such as the body of law that delineates parental rights and the implications of the law on public policy, the practices and decision - making processes child welfare agencies engage in when deciding whether to return children to their birth parents, and child and family factors that may affect the possibility of successful reunification.

All these factors must be considered and accounted for when facilitating both physical and psychological reunification.

Child welfare systems typically receive and investigate reports of possible child abuse and neglect; provide services to families that need assistance in the protection and care of their children; arrange for children to live with kin or with foster families when they are not safe at home; and arrange for reunification, adoption, or other permanent family connections for children leaving foster care.

Some separate, thinking they will work things out and get back together, but research shows that when a couple physically separates, divorce is more likely than reunification.

Children who have undergone forced separation from one of their parents in the absence of abuse, including cases of parental alienation, are highly subject to post-traumatic stress, and reunification efforts in these cases should proceed carefully and with sensitivity (research has shown that many alienated children can transform quickly from refusing or staunchly resisting the rejected parent to being able to show and receive love from that parent, followed by an equally swift shift back to the alienated position when back in the orbit of the alienating parent; alienated children seem to have a secret wish for someone to call their bluff, compelling them to reconnect with the parent they claim to hate).

We believe that attachment disorder begins with the requirement of reunification when parents are not able to safely care for their children.

(B) When a case plan indicates that placement is for purposes of providing family reunification services...

When it does eventually take place, the reunification therapist is revealed to be clueless regarding how to treat and resolve «parental alienation» and the ineffective and pointless «reunification therapy» will continue for months, or even years, without producing any change whatsoever.

We've been in reunification therapy and the therapist acts like the distortions the child is saying are true, and the therapist has even asked me to apologize to the child for my past «failures,» when I didn't do anything wrong.

The state child welfare system's mission of family reunification is a noble goal, but not always attainable, especially when it repeatedly returns kids to foster care.

When a child refuses to talk with or spend time with the other parent, then in many cases, the use of a child psychologist or counselor would be necessary in order to assist in redeveloping that parent - child relationship, something known as reunification therapy.

The court also threatened mother with sanctions when she refused to cooperate with the reunification plan.

«In one recent reunification case, the resisting parent (the mother) became highly motivated for an expedited reunification when the court found that she was interfering in the process and suspended the father's child support along with ordering the mother to pay for all counseling for the children and one hundred percent of the guardian ad litem fees.

This type of placement is used when the child has a concurrent permanency plan goal of reunification and adoption.

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.