What impacts placement stability?
Explore the importance of placement stability for youth in care and the factors that can affect it.
Foster parent recruitment and training
How can we improve placement stability for children in foster care?
Explore the promising approaches that have demonstrated a positive impact in improving placement stability.
Permanency and placement stability
Explore a variety of our resources related to the topics of permanency and placement stability.
How is Santa Clara County, Calif., moving to safely eliminate group and institutional placements?
Learn about the steps Santa Clara County is taking to eliminate group and institutional placements as options for youth in foster care.
How have some child protection agencies successfully recruited and retained resource families?
Learn how child protection agencies in New Jersey, Oklahoma, and Washington recruit and retain resource families for children in foster care.
What are some strategies for finding and keeping traditional and therapeutic resource families?
Explore effective strategies that child protection agencies can use to recruit and retain traditional and therapeutic resource families.
How can behavioral science be used to recruit foster and adoptive families?
Behavioral science offers ideas to improve the recruitment process for foster and adoptive parents in child welfare.
How can we ensure a child’s first placement is with a family?
Children’s first and only placement should be with family. This jurisdiction scan describes strategies to place children with family.
What are some considerations for using placement matching tools?
This issue brief describes tools to help child protection agencies identify the right first placement and improve placement stability.
How did New Jersey safely reduce the number of children in congregate care?
All children deserve to grow up in a home-based setting. Learn how New Jersey decreased congregate care usage by 45 percent.