How does homelessness and housing instability impact families involved with child welfare?
Explore the roles that child protection agencies have in connecting families to services that address homelessness and housing instability.
Collaboration and partnership
The power of kinship care
Curated collection of resources around agencies designing and implementing kin-first practices.
Raising hope in Allegheny County
A commitment to a kin-first culture means the world to families in Pennsylvania.
Knowing your roots
Thanks to Kinnect, Theo was placed with fictive kin and is connected to his siblings and extended family.
‘I don’t know who I would be’
Thanks to kinship care, Keeton Byerly was raised by his grandfather instead of being placed into foster care.
Connecting with kin in Ohio
Kinnect offers services that enable and support kinship placements. That makes all the difference to siblings like Jonathon and Chrishonna.
Baltimore: ‘All in for kin’
The KinCare Center is a physical representation of Baltimore City DSS’s commitment to supporting kinship families.
Support means Bristol can stay with family
Thanks to state-provided support, Bristol was able to receive specialized care from her grandmother after being separated from her mother.
What lessons can we learn from ICWA courts?
Learn how principles of the Indian Child Welfare Act are carried out in ICWA courts and their impact on permanency and reunification.
How Oregon DHS engages community in Continuous Quality Improvement
This map tool helps public agencies, like Oregon DHS, engage their constituents to tailor services to the needs of individual communities.