Feb 3, 2011
Since the early 1980s, states child welfare agencies’ use of relatives as foster parents has grown rapidly, yet little information is available on this practice. This lack of information has made it difficult to evaluate how well kinship care ensures...
Feb 3, 2011
Jill Duerr Berrick, a professor at theUniversity of California, Berkeley, is a well-respected researcher in child welfare and a long-time advocate of kinship care. A colleague familiar with her work brought to her attention the DHS PowerPoint presentation designed to...
Feb 3, 2011
“David Miller — and, really, everyone in the field of resilience — emphasizes the importance of someone else’s presence. Parents, first and best of all, who believe in you, and, if that fails, neighbors, friends, teachers. The foremost element...
Feb 3, 2011
This Honolulu Advertiser article interviewed famed researcher Emmy Werner . The article states, in part, “Emmy Werner may not be a household name, but the discoveries she has made over 40 years of studying 698 children born on Kaua’i in 1955 have created a...
Feb 3, 2011
The 1996 Personal Responsiblity and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) requires states to “consider giving preference to an adult relative over a non-related caregiver when determining a placement for a child, provided that the relative caregive meets...
Feb 3, 2011
Since the early 1980s, states child welfare agencies’ use of relatives as foster parents has grown rapidly, yet little information is available on this practice. This lack of information has made it difficult to evaluate how well kinship care ensures...
