Reintegration Work: Parental Support in Foster Care

The world of child welfare is a challenging one. In order to ensure long-term stability, a worker must be committed, caring, and flexible. It is important to look at each case individually, to remember that they are not just cases but children and families who have been separated. Workers must ensure they are providing all available resources to facilitate successful reintegration, but that they are also teaching independence and lifelong skills. Children and families need ways to cope with their past and present trauma along with methods to healthily deal with future traumas. The ultimate goal is to send a child home into a healthy and stable household so that they will not return to foster care. Achieving this goal requires close observation, hard work, and endless patience by all parties involved.