NCJ Number
159742
Journal
Source Volume: 5 Issue: 1 Dated: (Spring 1995) Pages: 3,5,12
Date Published
1995
Length
3 pages
Annotation
This article describes how Whole Family Foster Care, as practiced by Human Services Associates in Minneapolis, has allowed families, to be reunited after being separated because of substance addiction or other issues.
Abstract
The program aims to provide an alternative to inappropriate or premature institutional care for children living with drug-abusing parents. Whole Family Foster Care engages the healing elements in normal family living to ensure that children have their therapeutic needs met while living in out-of-home placements. Human Services Associates believes that parents need the same intensive services and family support for successful reunification. Components of the Whole Family Foster Care program include contracting, networking, peer support, and community resource mobilization. In placing families in this type of foster care, social workers need to ascertain that the host family, client family, and children will all benefit from this arrangement. While the full promise of this program has yet to be realized, it does offer structure and accountability to recovering addicts, and a chance for them to be with their children. 1 reference