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Kinship Process Mapping

A Guide to Improving Practice in Kinship Care

Many child welfare agencies are seeking effective strategies to identify and engage extended family networks to care for and protect children who cannot safely live with their parents. This guide provides a step-by-step method public child welfare agencies can use to identify barriers to placing children with kin and to develop recommendations for removing those barriers.

User's Guide to Essential Kinship Data

This brief guide identifies the types of data child welfare agencies should collect to track their progress in placing children who cannot return home to their families with kin.

Kinship Process Mapping - Executive Overview

Improving Practice in Kinship Care: Executive Overview

Kinship process mapping offers child welfare leaders valuable insight into how agency practices engage extended family networks to care for and protect children who cannot safely live with their parents.

The Kinship Diversion Debate

Policy and Practice Implications for Children, Families and Child Welfare Agencies

This report explores different perspectives on the practice of diverting children from child welfare to live with kin when they cannot remain with their families, and identifies critical components of an effective kinship care system. This analysis is based on the insights of more than 50 child welfare and judicial personnel, advocates and researchers.

Youth and Credit

Protecting the Credit of Youth in Foster Care

This guide provides advice on the best way for caseworkers and other adults to comply with the new federal law requiring child welfare agencies to request an annual credit report for youth in foster care starting at age 16 and until they leave the child welfare system — and to help young people resolve any issues that come up in those credit report checks.

Reconnecting Child Development and Child Welfare (Summary)

Nearly one in five children involved in the child welfare system spends time in a residential facility. Yet, research indicates that these residential settings do not prepare kids to develop needed family relationships to guide their social and emotional development.

Four Approaches to Family Team Meetings

A growing number of child welfare agencies use family team meetings to engage families in case-planning and decision making. While federal legislation encourages this practice, research has not yet identified which family team meeting models work best. This publication compares four family team meeting models that are supported by preliminary research.

Building on What Works

Improving Children’s Futures

This magazine article spotlights the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Evidence2Success project, which aims to facilitate new partnerships between school and community leaders en route to improving the well-being of children in low-income areas. Readers will learn about the project’s evidence-based strategies, as well as its survey tool, goals and next steps.