Kinship care

Family connections are incredibly important. Kinship care helps maintain the children or youths’ connections with their community of origin, decreases the number of moves, and lessens the trauma of family separation. This permanency option promotes the preservation of family, community, and cultural ties. 

Diligent recruitment involves child welfare agencies using data-driven and comprehensive best practices to identify and engage foster and adoptive families who can meet a youth’s needs. Diligent recruitment prioritizes kinship care and emphasizes youth voice and input from those with lived expertise. 

The resources on this page will help you learn about:

• The importance of kinship care in helping preserve cultural bonds.  

• Why it is important to consider culture in permanency decisions.  

• Strategies for finding and engaging families. 

• Frameworks for engaging youth in their own permanency planning.