Foster care is intended to be temporary, and the primary goal for children in foster care is to be reunified with their family. Reunification is the most common permanency outcome and the route by ...

Under U.S. law, an “immediate family member” is the child, spouse or parent of the person requesting reunification. To be considered a “child,” the person must be unmarried and under 21 years of age.

has celebrated Family Unification Day since 2017. Before then, LSNJ’s annual event was called Family Reunification Day, and this slight change in name is indicative of the state’s shift in focus to ...

Reunification therapy has a clear, single goal: the re-establishment of connection between parent and child and the restoration of their roles within the family and/or between separated parental ...