Understand the challenges to maintaining sibling placements and how to overcome them.
This session will highlight strategies and practices that promote keeping siblings together, ongoing connection, and reuniting siblings that have been separated.
Explore how virtual supports can help drive retention and support in order to increase positive outcomes for children and youth.
Learn why building capacity within child welfare systems to recruit, train, and support medically capable resource families is essential to meeting the needs of youth with complex medical needs.
Learn how diligent recruitment and adoption-competent mental health services benefit youth in foster care.
Explore strategies to support kinship caregivers and improve family outcomes.
Explore how family-first, kin-first approaches provide consistent, responsive, and strengths-based support for relatives and kin caregivers.
An overview of the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe Kinship Parenting Program that provides support and resources to kin caregivers and their families in Kitsap County, Washington.
A toolkit to help child welfare agencies identify and connect children in care with their extended family members or other trusted adults.
Kinship expert Dr. Joseph Crumbley explores a framework that outlines the distinctive dynamics of kinship families in this webinar.
Find innovative strategies for recruiting and retaining foster parents across various states.
A collection of state fact sheets designed to inform and guide foster care policy decisions.
Explore the significance of fostering supportive, safe, and opportunity-rich environments to avert the necessity for foster care.
An analysis of state kinship care policies based on a 2022 survey of child welfare administrators across the United States.
Explore a model for locating birth families for children and youth in need of adoption.
Discover highlights in the critical role of kinship care in Indigenous communities.
Explore specific policy language and trauma-informed recommendations to aid Tribal child welfare programs in developing effective, culturally relevant policies for kinship care.
Strategies for family search and engagement aimed at locating relatives and fictive kin for children in out-of-home care.
Tips for child welfare workers to balance the benefits and risks of social media.
This research underscores the need to create a consistent method for defining, identifying, and monitoring children with complex medical needs.