Legal Impact
The new law – and what is happening in states across the country – will impact child welfare practice in the area of kinship care and guardianship.
This full-day training builds on the Casey Family Services’ Lifelong Families training and its Replication Manual training. The training focuses specifically on achieving and sustaining permanence for children and youth in foster care through guardianship following the passage of the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act.
The Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act is the recent federal law that made many changes in how social workers operate with relatives of children in foster care.