| Child Care Services for Children in Out-of-Home Care |
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| Published in 2001, this 22-page report describes federal funding streams available to help pay for child care. |
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| Child-Only TANF Payments for Kinship Care Families in States Served by Casey Family Programs |
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| Published in 2003, this 20-page report describes Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) for households headed by grandparents and other kin. |
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| Dual Licensure for Foster and Adoptive Families: Evolving Best Practices |
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| Produced in 2000, this 41-page report is based on a survey of families and state managers of foster care and adoption programs. |
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| Family, Community, Culture: Roots of Permanency |
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| Published in 2003, this framework describes three components for permanency: supportive and caring relationships, a nurturing and empowering environment, culturally responsive and timely services. |
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| Foster Care Today |
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| Published in 2001, this 46-page overview describes demographic trends and the legislative, policy, and social factors that shape foster care. |
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| Guide to Special Education Advocacy for Resource Families |
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| Produced in 2001, this 20-page guide helps foster, adoptive, and kinship caregivers advocate with schools to ensure children receive the educational benefits to which they are entitled. |
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| Kinship Report: Assessing the Needs of Relative Caregivers and the Children in Their Care |
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| Produced in August 2003, this 118-page report presents a comprehensive picture of the difficulties faced by kinship care families and an appreciation of the strengths they bring to their situation. |
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| Mitigating the Effects of Racial/Ethnic Disproportionality |
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| Produced in August 2003, this 30-page paper outlines practices in permanency planning and support services that might mitigate the effects of disproportionality on children and families in the child welfare system. |
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| Partners: Working with the Business Community to Recruit Resource Families |
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| Produced in 2001, this 102-page handbook is for agencies recruiting foster, adoptive, kinship, and respite families. |
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| Planned and Crisis Respite for Families with Children |
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| Produced in 2001, this 47-page report recommends ways to build a responsive and workable system of respite care for families in the child welfare system. |
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| Proceedings of the National Leadership Symposium on Siblings in Out-of-Home Care |
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| A 121-page summary of program and supporting materials for the symposium held on May 19-20, 2002. |
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| Recruitment and Retention of Resource Families: The Promise and the Paradox |
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| Produced in 2002, this 105-page document provides an overview of the messages and unique approaches of eight states with innovative and rigorous strategies to recruit foster and adoptive families. |
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| State Responses to Allegations of Maltreatment in Out-of-Home Care |
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| Published in 2002, this 105-page report summarizes survey data from 24 states. |
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