How can child protection agencies and faith-based organizations work together to meet family needs?
Key partnership strategies continue to evolve from a focus on foster care and adoption to prevention-oriented and family-support efforts.
Kinship care
How can guardianship support permanency and well-being?
Guardianship helps reduce the need for foster care while keeping children safely connected to their extended families.
The power of kinship care
Curated collection of resources around agencies designing and implementing kin-first practices.
What are family-based placements?
Learn about a range of family-based placement settings that are tailored to the needs of the child being placed in foster care.
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.