This detailed symposium explores two of the most sensitive issues in child care preventing the break-up of the family, and facilitating, when possible, the return of the child to its own parents.
PART 1 Developing Policy and Practice in Prevention and Reunification the theory continuum - prevention, restoration and permanence; Prevention and Reunification - an historical perspective; Family Reunification and preservation - the need for partnership between users and professionals; Black and white child care careers: a different reality; The Law, prevention and reunification - the New Zealand development of Family Group Conferences. PART 2 Keeping Families Together Respite care for children - an old remedy in a new package; Establishing a family support group for parents with children in care or accommodation; Coping with care the information needs of young people; Working with parents. PART 3 Reuniting Families: Going home - what makes reunification work? Restoring children from foster care to their parents; Reunification - parallels between placement in new families and reunifying children with their families.
