Reunification of foster children with their birth parents is a critical focus of child welfare services, and the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 has intensified the effort to reunify families. A large child welfare agency in a midwestern state developed an evidence-based treatment reunification model, that is based on the practices and principles that have been found to most predictive of a safe, timely and successful return home. This model is intensive, home-based, and incorporates an innovative support group for birth parents. A comparative evaluation of this model after 1 year finds that its reunification rates are double that of comparable cases receiving the agency's conventional reunification services.Children in foster care are at risk of losing their connection to their biological family, and this risk increases over time (Proch and Howard 1986). The most critical predictor of whether and when a child will return home from foster care is his continued connections to his birth family. The longer a foster child remains in out of home care, the more the connections weaken, and the less likely the child will return home (Berry 2002). Therefore, parent visitation-the scheduled, face-to-face contact between parents and their children in foster care-is considered the primary effective intervention for maintaining and enhancing the development of parentchild relationships, so necessary for successful family reunification (Haight et al. 2003).