{"id":216214,"date":"2026-06-11T05:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T05:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/216214\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T05:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T05:56:07","slug":"commissioners-proclaim-family-reunification-month-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/216214\/","title":{"rendered":"Commissioners proclaim Family Reunification Month \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lackawanna County commissioners proclaimed June as Family Reunification Month to laud parents and agencies for their work in ensuring that families get back together. County officials said the family unit is the foundation for a child\u2019s security, growth, development and community involvement, and parents sometimes encounter issues that require legal, social service and educational assistance to enhance their skills, recover and, most important, to reunite with their children. From left: Commissioners Bill Gaughan and Thom Welby; Janette Altenhain, Lori Chaffers, Angela Seibert, Paige Miller, Miranda McNally, Christine Gogas, Nicole Piccoletti and Kristy Vassell, OutreachWorks staff members; and Commissioner Chris Chermak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lackawanna County commissioners proclaimed June as Family Reunification Month to laud parents and agencies for their work&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[524,201,182,28,727,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-216214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-community","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-photos-and-videos","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}