General Kinship Publications

This brief provides kinship practice examples from across the country, organized by seven main topics, to help jurisdictions change policy and practice to promote kin placement and permanency, and successfully implement a kin-first culture shift.

Generations United fact sheet summarizing research showing that  children thrive in grandfamilies and do even better when well supported by services (2023). 

ABA Journal Children and the Law Article Series highlighting advocate support for kinship care and the use of shadow foster care systems to place children with kin outside of child welfare. August 2023. 

This toolkit was developed to support child and parent attorneys' advocacy for kinship placements for their clients/client’s children through trial and appellate advocacy, as well as outside of the court setting. This toolkit includes federal and state law and policy resources, and a comprehensive overview of social science articles and research studies on the benefits of kinship care.

Child Welfare Information Gateway Podcast episodes focused on supporting kinship caregivers. Each highlights a state or tribe but is broadly applicable:

Supporting Kinship Caregivers, Part 1 (2017) (California)

Supporting Kinship Caregivers, Part 2  (2017) (Florida)

Advances in Supporting Kinship Caregivers, Part 1 (2022) (Rhode Island)

Advances in Supporting Kinship Caregivers, Part 2 (2022) (Washington)

Advances in Supporting Kinship Caregivers, Part 3 (2022) (Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe)

Advances in Supporting Kinship Caregivers, Part 4 (2022) (Nevada)

Advances in Supporting Kinship Caregivers, Part 5 (2022) (New Mexico)