Kinship Care & Relatives for Permanency Placement
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From: http://www.childwelfare.gov/permanency/relatives.cfm
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Permanent Placements With Relatives
When children in out-of-home care cannot be safely returned home to their parents, child welfare professionals first look to relatives (also known as kin) to provide permanency for them. Relatives may adopt the children, assume legal guardianship, or accept a transfer of custody. All three options provide a permanent legal family for the children and support their exit from foster care and State custody. Kinship families caring for children often need an array of services to support their efforts. Resources include State and local examples.
Adoption and Subsidized
Guardianship as Permanency Options in Kinship Foster Care: Barriers and
Facilitating Conditions
Mason & Gleeson (1999)
View Abstract
A qualitative study of caseworkers in Illinois to identify barriers and
conditions that support permanency for children in foster care.
Assessing Adult
Relatives as Preferred Caregivers in Permanency Planning: A Competency-Based
Curriculum
(PDF - 312 KB)
National Resource Center for Foster Care and Permanency Planning (2002)
Provides an overview of the key knowledge and skills needed to work
effectively with birth families and extended family members. Identifies
family assessment categories that are different for relatives and
nonrelatives.
Finding Permanent
Homes for Foster Children: Issues Raised by Kinship Care
(PDF - 135 KB)
The Urban Institute (2003)
Reviewed local kinship care policies and practices in 13 counties in
Alabama, California, Connecticut, and Indiana to identify barriers to
permanency for children in kinship care.
Kinship Care and
Permanence: Guiding Principles for Policy and Practice
Lorkovich, Piccola, Groza, Brindo, & Marks
Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services,
85(2), 2004
Reviews why kinship care is favored, and uses lessons learned from the
Kinship Adoption Project in Cuyahoga County, OH to discuss barriers and
permanence of kinship care.
Making Good Decisions
about Kinship Care
ABA Center on Children and the Law (1997)
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Considerations for making decisions about placing children with relatives,
including steps in the selection of a kinship home and legal aspects of
kinship arrangements.
Permanency Planning with
Kinship Foster Parents
Geen (2003)
In
Kinship Care: Making the Most of a Valuable Resource
View Abstract
Examines the different ways that local agencies approach permanency planning
when children are in kin rather than nonkin foster care.
Placement of Children
With Relatives
Child Welfare Information Gateway (2005)
State laws that encourage preference for relatives when making foster care
and adoptive placements. (PDF
- 152 KB)
Final Progress Report:
Innovations to Increase Permanency Options for Children in Kinship Care
Institute for Black Parenting (2003)
View Abstract
Through community awareness of permanency options and support for kinship
caregivers, the project attempted to place 74 children in adoptive
placements and 40 children in legal guardianships with relatives.
The KIN-nections
Project: aka Families First for the State of Arizona: Final Report
Arizona's Children Association (2003)
View Abstract
The project was designed to increase relative adoptions and guardianships
through the use of family group conferencing for three groups of children:
children who were free for adoption but had no identified placement,
children in care for 5 or more years, and children in the Casey Family
Programs long- term foster care program.
Permanent Kinship
Placements (PKP) Project: Final Report
Adoption Center at Bellefaire JCB (2003)
View Abstract
The project developed a training curriculum and video series to educate
child welfare workers about best practices when working with kin providers
and used new technology and innovative techniques to identify, locate, and
engage potential kin who could provide permanency for waiting children.
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