Knowledge Base

This study examines an intervention designed to enhance mother child interaction during visits focusing on leave-taking.

From Action for Child Protection, discusses the improtance of establishing conditions for reunification.

Implications of understanding mothers’, foster mothers’ and child welfare workers’ perspectives for enhancing the quality of visits with young children are discussed.

Federal law requires State agencies to demonstrate that reasonable efforts have been made to provide assistance and services to prevent the unnecessary removal of a child from his or her home and make it possible for a child who has been placed in out-of-home care to be reunited with his or her family.

Discusses if reunification should occur only when all safety concerns have been resolved and how does one assess safety following a period of intervention?

This paper provides step by step guidelines for parent-child visits from initiation to documentation and analysis of the interaction so that the frontline caseworker can support the parent-child relationship necessary for successful reunification.

PowerPoint presentation for the 2007 Dependency Court Improvement Summit.