TIme for Reform: Aging Out and On Their Own
This report gives a background of foster care issues in need of reform from the kids’ perspective while outlining what policy reforms make sense.
If young people have permanence, they have family members — including at least one parenting adult — who intend to always be there for them.
There are two general ways to describe permanence: legal and relational. In legal permanence, a court order has cemented and validated a child’s relationship with a parenting youth. In relational permanence, a youth maintains lifelong connections with others, including at least one adult who serves as a meaningful and permanent parental figure. This connection is subjectively defined by the youth irrespective of a legal status.
This report gives a background of foster care issues in need of reform from the kids’ perspective while outlining what policy reforms make sense.
This issue of Casey Connects summarizes findings from the 2006 KIDS COUNT Data Book and essay. More specifically: It tells what we should do — and what select programs are already doing — to help improve the quality of family, friend and neighbor care across America.
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We want vulnerable kids to have a bright future. That’s why we work tirelessly to advance solutions that improve the well-being of kids in America.
This issue of Casey Connects spotlights the Foundation’s efforts on 2 fronts: 1) helping kids in foster care find loving, permanent families; and 2) reducing racial disparities throughout the child welfare system. A smaller story recognizes 6 movers and shakers in the child welfare field, including 4 former Families Count honorees.
Part of the Family to Family Tools for Rebuilding Foster Care series. The research highlighted in this publication identifies successful programs, policies, and strategies that have been helping older children find permanent families; as well as how lessons learned from programs and policy changes can be distilled into action steps.
This manual, created for Casey's Family to Family grantees, shows how team decisionmaking works as a strategy for permanence in family foster care system, and how state agencies can incorporate it into their day to day practice.
This Family to Family Implementation Guide was developed as a practical resource for child welfare agencies and their partners to use in moving toward a more family-focused and neighborhood-based service system.
This guide provides practical advice and tools for developing a strategic communications program to garner media coverage and support for the Family to Family initiative.
