Placing children in need of out-of-home care with relatives can help them maintain connections to family, community, and culture. Discover important resources from Children's Bureau Express on kinship care to help you support the important work kin caregivers do for the children in their family.
Speaking of Change: How Can Kinship Care Advance Racial Equity in Child Welfare?
Amara's Kinship Program has a second installment in its Speaking of Change webinar series that seeks to break down common assumptions and misconceptions about foster care and adoption by sharing stories of people engaged in child and family welfare.
Read more »New Grandfamilies and Kinship Support Network Formed
The Administration for Community Living (within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) and Generations United have partnered to form the first national technical assistance center focused on working across jurisdictions to improve supports and services for grandfamilies and kinship families.
Read more »Benefits of Kinship Placement
Learn about the American Bar Association's tool for lawyers to use in trial or during their appellate arguments to help them advocate for kinship placement.
Read more »Reimagining Permanency: The Struggle for Racial Equity and Lifelong Connections
A series of articles in Family Integrity and Justice Quarterly discusses the importance of maintaining familial relationships in the wake of out-of-home care, the need for permanency, and the damage that severing ties with family means to children and youth involved with child welfare.
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