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This resource details multiple ways that jurisdictions have strengthened and deepened their relationships with private child welfare agencies in light of kin-specific licensing, using newly freed-up resources to focus on higher-level supports.
Join us for a conversation with Geene Delaplane and Chelsea Griffin of Washington's Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF), who have been leading the state's efforts to strengthen support for kin caregivers involved in the child welfare system.
If you are a Native parent or relative caregiver of a child who was removed from their parents by a state child welfare system, this resource prepared by the National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) is for you.
This guidebook discusses several important considerations and suggests a process through which tribes can develop locally appropriate standards.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about the Kin-Specific Foster Home Approval Standards, which are the only national model of such standards. They were developed by an array of national partners, including the Network, to help states take the federal option to implement separate, tailored foster care licensing standards for kinship families.
The National Indian Child Welfare Association developed this resource as a tip sheet that tribal service providers can give to people who are seeking to become a caregiver for a minor relative child or seeking to provide support to and/or advocate for a minor relative child in an out-of-home placement.
This toolkit, developed by our partners at the National Indian Child Welfare Association, has two parts. Part one examines several issues that tribal child welfare programs might want to consider in drafting policies and procedures with regard to the engagement of extended families in services and the support of relatives/kin who step into parenting roles, whether inside or outside of the formal child welfare system. Part two provides policy guidance and sample trauma-informed language to support the development of tribally specific child welfare policy to address the identified issues outlined in part one.
This Kin-Finding Toolkit features promising practices that have been helping child welfare agencies across the country increase their kin placement rates. Every practice comes with the necessary real-world tools, such as sample policy language and forms. Take away new strategies and resources to adapt for your own system or organization.
The ABA Center on Children and the Law and Generations United, in partnership with Casey Family Programs, have created this practical kinship assessment tool with resource links to support the array of child welfare agencies
The Grandfamilies & Kinship Support Network hosted a webinar on September 12, 2023 with presenter Marina Nitze for a preview and initial roll-out of the Kin-Finding Toolkit
