The first priority of Navajeevan is to integrate the child with the family as early as possible. On few occasions, even if children are prepared to go home after many sessions of counseling, the Home re-integration team is not able to contact their parents due to incorrect addresses provided by them, or, sometimes, children do not want parents to come to shelter and take them. Many a time, they prefer the team members to accompany them and act as intermediaries. Often, especially in case of older child, s/he has become ?missing? child down the years as s/he has only a very vague memory of home and cannot recollect the home address.

The Home integration process is taken up at any stage of the child's stay in Navajeevan. Counseling acts as a bridge for home integrating the child back to his naturally acquired living abode, that is his/her parents