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Vol. 24, No. 5 | June 2023
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This issue of CBX highlights reunification and the importance of supporting families as they work toward their reunification goals. Read a message from Associate Commissioner Aysha E. Schomburg celebrating the joy and worth of each successful family reunification story. This issue also includes valuable resources for professionals and the families they serve.
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In a perfect world every family would have what it needs, whether that is concrete supports such as housing and cash, or even access to culturally appropriate mental health services. In that same perfect world, all families would stay together safely and be supported by their extended families and communities. That is a world in which foster care is obsolete...Whenever children are reunited with their families—their parents, siblings, tribes, communities—something in our world shifts and becomes a little less imperfect. We get it right, when we are zealous in our pursuit to reunite unharmed children with their parents...Let’s celebrate our progress and share stories of family triumph during this National Reunification Month.
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A new online training from the National Quality Improvement Center on Family-Centered Reunification, led by the Innovations Institute at the University of Connecticut School of Social Work, focuses on family-centered approaches for working with families toward reunification. "Family-Centered Reunification Training" aims to help child welfare agencies infuse family-centered practices and strategies in their reunification work to achieve more timely reunifications that better address families’ needs and improve their capacity to safely care for their children.
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In her article “Kinship Matters: Reflections From the Bench on Preserving Children’s Right to Family” for the fall 2022 issue of Family Integrity & Justice Quarterly, Judge Edwina Richardson Mendelson reflects on the importance of kinship care and family connections for children’s well-being. She discusses how kinship care within the child welfare system has evolved over time and briefly reviews the past and present kinship care legal landscape in her jurisdiction of New York State and nationally... The journals articles call the reader to consider what “best interests of the child” means in child welfare, that children tend to do better when their connections to family and kin are preserved, and how legal and child welfare systems can work to preserve family and kin connections for children’s well-being.
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IN THIS ISSUE
News From the Children’s Bureau
Training & Technical Assistance Updates
Child Welfare Research
Strategies and Tools
Resources
Training and Conferences
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Children's Bureau Express (CBX) shares insights on emerging issues, trends and best practices for professionals concerned with child abuse and neglect, child welfare, and adoption. CBX is published 10 times per year and features a letter from the Children’s Bureau’s Associate Commissioner in each issue. Search the website to research topics or find past issues in the archive.
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