The National Quality Improvement Center on Family-Centered Reunification (QIC-R) works with public and tribal child welfare sites nationally to identify, assess, and implement promising and evidence-based practices that address the individual and collective needs of birth families/families of origin with children in foster care.
Children with previous experience with foster care are at greater risk for further re-entry after reunification.
Factors such as child behavior challenges, siblings in foster care at the same time, and instances of court-ordered return-home-against-agency-recommendation all increase the likelihood of re-entry after reunification.
The interventions implemented through the QIC-R support the successful reunification of families by preserving, nurturing, and strengthening parent-child relationships and supportive community connections and resources.
The QIC-R team has explored current interventions to assess those that might serve to achieve successful reunification. Our assessment can be found in our Family-Centered Reunification in Child Welfare: A Review of Best Practices. This guide will serve local implementation sites (LIS) chosen as QIC-R sites as they select interventions.