reunification

Despite my requests to live separately from my sister, on occasion, she and I lived together and even shared a room, writes Lakievia Johnson.

Older youth in Kansas foster care will have a new path to permanency available to them after passage of a bill codifying the SOUL Family concept

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By Jody Rudin In New York City, which rightfully prides itself on compassion and resilience, there are parents who are trying to rebuild lives with their families but are caught in the crosscurrents of temporary housing, mental health challenges, and the foster care system. 

State and local officials are tackling a widely acknowledged injustice in Los Angeles County's child welfare system: Making low-income parents pay for programs they need to complete to get their kids back from foster care. 

Congressional intern Jessica Herrera Twitchell proposes that Congress amend two federal programs for older youth in foster care.

Under a proposed law, parents would receive six extra months of reunification time if a child welfare agency failed to deliver services. 

Because of reunification, I wasn’t able to receive the same support that those who age out of foster care receive, writes Erial Pree.

My greatest difficulty in the foster care system was that I was always separated from my siblings, writes Laticia Aossey.