Resources

Youth and Credit: Resources for Young People

These fliers offer clear info for caseworkers to help youth navigate credit issues and ID theft, using real-life scenarios that speak to their experiences.

Kinship Process Mapping

A Guide to Improving Practice in Kinship Care

This guide helps child welfare agencies identify barriers to kin placement and develop strategies to connect kids with safe, extended family networks.

User's Guide to Essential Kinship Data

This brief outlines key data child welfare agencies should track to measure efforts to place children who can’t return home with relatives.

Kinship Process Mapping - Executive Overview

Improving Practice in Kinship Care: Executive Overview

Kinship process mapping helps child welfare leaders see how agencies engage families to support and protect kids who can’t safely live with their parents.

The Kinship Diversion Debate

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

This report highlights key insights on kinship care from over 50 experts and explores diverting children from foster care to live safely with relatives.

Youth and Credit

Protecting the Credit of Youth in Foster Care

This guide helps adults meet the law requiring annual credit checks for foster youth 16+ and support them in fixing any issues found in those reports.

Reconnecting Child Development and Child Welfare (Summary)

Nearly 1 in 5 kids in child welfare spend time in residential care, but research shows these settings don’t support strong social or emotional growth.

Four Approaches to Family Team Meetings

This brief compares four family team meeting models used in child welfare and highlights the need for more research to find the most effective approach.