The permanency goal of family reunification identifies a child’s own home as the safe and permanent living situation towards which CPS services are directed. When family reunification is the permanency goal CPS:
• has removed the child from the home;
• will provide services to the child, the child’s family, and the child’s temporary substitute caregiver; and
• has determined that the child’s parents are willing and, after completing services, able to provide the child with a safe living environment.
Family reunification may be with the parent from whom the child was removed or the parent who did not have custody at the time of removal.
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