Benefits
Kinship care can achieve positive outcomes for children involved in the child welfare system.
This introduction provides an Executive Overview of Kinship Process Mapping: A Guide to Improving Practice in Kinship Care. The overview is intended to educate decision makers in public child welfare agencies about the kinship process mapping tool and how it can help them identify barriers to and make improvements in their kinship systems.
Kinship care can achieve positive outcomes for children involved in the child welfare system.
Significant barriers exist to placing children with kin, and kinship process mapping is a tool child welfare agency leaders can use to identify these barriers.
Kinship process mapping engages all level of staff in the identification of barriers and solutions to kinship care.
To be successful, kinship care requires a high level of executive buy-in and support.
Kinship process mapping can be completed in approximately eight weeks, at which point the agency will have a concrete set of recommendations for improving the kinship system.
