The Barriers to Successful Reunification in Philadelphia: Findings from the Perceptions of Birth Parents & Child Welfare Professionals project was a one-year Stoneleigh Junior Fellowship project by Wanja Ogongi, MSW; a doctoral candidate at the Center for Social Work Education at Widener University.
This report presents the findings from this research project and study of the experiences of families who have reunified or soon will reunify with their children from foster care. The aim of this study was to identify challenges that families face during and after the reunification process, especially recurrent systemic issues that may contribute to foster care reentry, which, once identified, can be anticipated and eliminated.
This project would not have been possible without the generous support of the Stoneleigh Foundation which provided funding, and Community Legal Services, which sponsored, provided space and assisted in recruitment of research participants.
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