Foster Care Licensing

The Alliance for Children’s Rights, the Step Up Coalition, and a wide range of state and local partners created a Resource Family Approval Toolkit  designed to help walk  California caregivers through the newly implemented Resource Family Approval process (2017). 

Informs Title IV-E agencies on how to use CCWIS, non-CCWIS information systems, websites, and applications to recruitment, approval and retention of foster homes. The IM focuses on foster family homes, kinship homes and pre-adoptive homes. February 10, 2020.

Summary and implications of a Kentucky case sent to the U.S. Supreme Court.  Since the Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal, the earlier ruling from the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stands. The court ruled that the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services must pay relatives who take in foster children even if not fully licensed (2017).

This best practice guide for foster and kinship parent recruitment, produced by ChildFocus and the Redlich Horwitz Foundation, was developed to provide counties and provider agencies with new ideas and proven tools to improve their retention and support practices for foster parents (2017).

Action for Children’s foster home assessment tool to be used to assess potential foster family homes.