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…, data and policy practices that make it easier for children to live with kin caregivers. Learn what can ... care whose parents are incarcerated. ... It can be tough to become an adult, especially if you’ve been in foster care. Learn how ... Improving opportunities for young people leaving foster care
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…, frequent moves and lack of access to resources — good schools, medical care, safe outdoor spaces ... High-quality early child care and education are key to healthy development but out of reach for too
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…the impact of policies and practices on the well-being of young people who are aging out of foster care
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…safe and humane care to youth in their custody.
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…and having access to programs and services for child health care, food, income supplements and other
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…and agency officials can connect children to quality education and health care, parents to economic
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…The Casey Foundation is hosting a webinar — “Kinship Care: What Child Welfare ... Professionals and Kin Caregivers Need to Know” — for caregivers and the professionals who work ... the emotional challenges of raising kin. Tracey Feild, director of the Foundation’s Child Welfare ... ;Therefore, it’s important to talk about ways kin caregivers can manage the conflicting emotions
Blog Post
…and communities are rethinking how to help kin do what they do so well, which is to provide care and continuity ... Start by learning about kin caregiving, including how formal kinship care through a child welfare agency ... Nationally, fewer kids in foster care are living in group facilities — and more are living ... relationships, and support connections to family, culture and community. But being a kin caregiver isn&rsquo
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…-honored tradition is called kinship care. Today, more than 2.7 million children in this country are in kin ... care, an increase of nearly 18 percent in a decade. There are two types of kin care: Private ... or informal kin care. These are arrangements that are made by families, with or without legal recognition ... of the caregiver’s status. Public kin care. This includes all children who have come to the attention
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…Challenges of Kinship Care — as a resource for kin caregivers and the child welfare workers who ... ;conflicting emotions that surface when kin step up to care for relatives when parents can’t." Coping ... More than 139,000 children in foster care are living in kinship placements with thousands more ... are in informal kinship care arrangements. As child welfare systems increasingly prioritize placing children