Kinship Process Mapping - Executive Overview

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Removing Barriers To Kinship Care
• A New Approach To Understanding Kinship Care
• Kinship Process Mapping
• Kinship Process Mapping Timeline
• Conclusion
• About the Annie E. Casey Foundation

Key Takeaway

improving kinship systems

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.