PARENTS’ EXPERIENCES OF FAMILY REUNIFICATION SERVICES

Family Reunification—Concepts and Challenges

This article offers an outline for the components of disaster planning and response where considerations for family reunification should occur and describes the challenges and solutions within each. Challenges and solutions are described in 6 areas including practice and planning, clinical services, ancillary support, transportation and accommodations, communication and identification, and psyc...

Sexual Risk-Taking Among Recently Emancipated Female Foster Youth: Sexual Trauma and Failed Family Reunification Experiences.

Foster youth evidence shows elevated rates of risk behaviors, including sexual risk-taking (e.g., unprotected sex). Some studies have identified child maltreatment, particularly sexual abuse, as a risk for later sexual risk-taking, but none have examined how child welfare placement experiences relate to youth's sexual risk-taking. This study investigated relations among child maltreatment, chil...

A qualitative study of parents' experiences using family support services: applying the concept of surface and depth.

United Kingdom policy and practice endorses family support for child well-being. Achieving such support requires multi-agency approaches that consider all aspects of parents' and children's lives and which offer practical, social and emotional help. The potential for services to make a positive impact on parents and their families will depend in part on the level and nature of engagement. In th...

Family Separation and Reunification of Newcomers in Toronto

Overview What is family separation and reunification? Historically, when immigrating to Canada, one family member often came first to assess opportunities, find a job, and establish a foundation, all the while sending remittances back home. After this initial period, other family members followed from the country of origin. In contemporary Canada, the forms of these family separations and reuni...

Indicators for Safe Family Reunification: How Professionals Differ