includes the family, the county social worker or workers involved and a worker from VOA trained to work in a family setting to specifically identify problems within the family nucleus and attempt to keep the family together by solving difficulties PRIOR to the family having to be broken up and children sent to foster care. Family Unification is not always easy simply because there is not one simple reason nor just one child involved... at least not in most of the cases. By focusing, through intensive in home therapy on the "mechanics", if you will, of the homes logistics, plans are made, funding is made available and monitoring to make sure that the entire family is "safe" and "on track" towards continuing to be a happy, healthy environment for all involved. I'm fairly certain that there has to be other agencies and governmental parties which also must be doing this. It is time consuming and it is a difficult task but there is a genuine and caring population out there who are doing all they can to help families stay together. The days of just "grabbing" the children and stickin' 'em in foster care are pretty well gone and over with. I know of no agency nor governmental unit which will do that without a good deal of hard, incontrovertible facts to shore up their case against the family. I know, I know.... yes, I'm sure it still can happen... but it is no longer the prevalent panacea it once