Engaging and Supporting Kinship Caregivers
Learn what states are doing — and where they can do more — to engage and support kin caregivers when a child enters foster care.
There are four ways children can leave foster care for permanent homes: Reunification with birth parents, adoption, guardianship and placement with relatives.
Guardianship is a legal process that gives decision making power to a designated caregiver. By assuming guardianship of a child, adults can make decisions related to that child’s academic, health care, and... more
Learn what states are doing — and where they can do more — to engage and support kin caregivers when a child enters foster care.
Every child needs and deserves to grow up in a safe, loving and nurturing family – a family whose support is unconditional and will last a lifetime.
Pennsylvania law recently expands efforts to find supportive families and caregivers for teens in foster care and help young people to thrive. Read more.
A report urges child welfare systems to end group placements and recommends evidence-based, family-focused alternatives. Learn more.
A study finds children exiting foster care are more likely to return if they were infants, early teens or in group care before reuniting with family.
This report examines the risks of children returning to foster care after discharge and seeks to help child welfare agencies identify kids who might benefit from evidence-based interventions available through the Family First Prevention Services Act.
Team Decision Making helps child welfare agencies decide if children should stay with parents — an approach Casey has refined for over 20 years.
Lisa Hamilton talks with Rafael López about fixing child welfare to better support kids and families in crisis — and where the system falls short today.
More than 240,000 children exited the foster care system in 2015, the vast majority to family, according to the KIDS COUNT Data Center.
In a Casey video, teens in foster care urge caseworkers to keep connecting them with family. A discussion guide helps apply it in practice.
A new Casey Foundation report explores how public agencies can enlist more individuals and families to become foster parents — and encourage those who now serve to continue their extraordinary commitment.
This report explores how public agencies can get more people to step forward as foster parents and to encourage the extraordinary individuals who have already answered the call to continue their commitment to care.
In 2014, 12% of the 238,230 kids who transitioned out of foster care did so without the benefit of a permanent connection to family.
Every child needs a family. Learn how agencies can build lasting connections through high-performing practices in Casey’s upcoming webinar.
On CaseyCast, Lisa Hamilton and Shirley Roberts discuss Delaware’s evolving child welfare system in an inspiring, solutions-focused conversation.
In February, the Child Welfare Strategy Group launched a three-part webinar series devoted to building high-performance child welfare agencies.
Download Every Kid Needs a Family: Giving Children in the Child Welfare System the Best Chance for Success, the latest KIDS COUNT Policy Report.
This KIDS COUNT policy report underscores a simple fact about childhood: Family matters. Yet, today in America, 57,000 children are still living in group placements. Readers will learn about limiting the role of residential treatment care to its intended purpose and how state and local leaders can work together to enhance family-oriented services and supports. The end goal? Brighter futures — and loving families — for some of our country’s most vulnerable children.
View the list of KIDS COUNT Outreach Partners, a network of organizations who help to promote KIDS COUNT data and its policy recommendations.
In 2013, 238,547 children exited foster care; 66% reunited with family or guardians, and 21% were adopted. Learn more.
This report identifies 24 policy and practice recommendations for lawmakers to consider as they work to improve the lives of youth moving through and out of foster care. It is a product of the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative.
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