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Rebuilding Families, Reclaiming Lives: State Obligations to Children in Foster Care and Their Incarcerated Parents
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Rebuilding Families, Reclaiming Lives: State Obligations to Children in Foster Care and Their Incarcerated Parents
Publication year:
2006
| Cataloged on:
Dec. 04, 2006
ANNOTATION: Barriers to the reunification of incarcerated parents with their children placed in foster care and “reasonable efforts” to address these problems are discussed. This report is comprised of the following sections: executive summary; introduction; families affected by parental incarceration -- reasons for child removal and parental incarceration, benefits to preserving relationships between children and their incarcerated parents, and barriers to family reunification; federal child welfare law -- the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980, the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, and the effects of federal child welfare law on incarcerated parents and their children in foster care; state implementation of federal child welfare law regarding incarcerated parents and their children; opportunities for improvement; conclusion; and a sample Inter-Agency Protocol.