Posts Tagged ‘kinship’
Mental Health Needs of Children Who Have Been in Foster Care Explored
The winter 2012 newsletter of the Children, Youth, and Families Office of the American Psychological Association includes several articles about the mental health needs of children and youth who have experienced foster care, including challenges faced by adoptive families and the mental health services they have used. Follow link for more information.
Kinship Care Report to Congress, June 2000
The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 directed the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to develop this report to Congress. Sarah Casken, the HFPA executive Director, served as a member of the ASFA-designated Advisory Panel on Kinship Care which met in October 1998 and January 1999 in Washington, D.C. to provide input to this report.
Kinship Care: Making the Most of a Valuable Resource
Kinship care has traditionally been an informal service that family members provide for each other in times of crisis. More recently, however, it has also become part of the child welfare system’s array of services.
State Policies for Assessing and Supporting Kinship Foster Parents
This study by the Urban Institute provides information regarding states’ kinship care policies.
Reweaving `Ohana Connections
Resource caregivers, guardians, adoptive and kinship parents, more than most, know how much it hurts children when abuse and neglect rips their family apart.
Kinship Care: Making the Most of a Valuable Resource
Kinship care has traditionally been an informal service that family members provide for each other in times of crisis. More recently, however, it has also become part of the child welfare system’s array of services.
Kinship Care: Making the Most of a Valuable Resource by Rob Geen, editor
Since the early 1980s, state’ use of kin as foster parents has grown rapidly, yet very little information is available on how and when local child welfare agencies use kin as foster parents, how agencies’ approach to kinship care differs from their approach to traditional foster care, and how local kinship care policies and practices vary across states.
