This chart by Generations United and the Virginia Poverty Law Center, with support from the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, is designed to help kinship foster parents in Virginia compare adoption and transfer of legal custody as options that you and the children in your care can pursue to exit foster care and create permanent families (2021).

This website has information about kids waiting to be adopted, the process for adoption and some post adoption information.  It is not directed at kinship caregivers who are adopting, but some of the information may be helpful.

Guide created by Youth Law Center and Juvenile Law Center intended to be a practical tool that can be used by attorneys and advocates to ensure that youth are in living settings where they can be connected with family, the community, and a support system.

The Annie E. Casey Foundation has released its third brief in a five-part series  - Family Ties: Analysis from a State-By-State Survey of Kinship Care Policies - based on survey data collected in 2022 for the AECF by Child Trends.  This brief,  New Insights on State Kinship Diversion Policies, examines survey data related to state’s policies for creating, overseeing and tracking diversion arrangements and the resources made available for children and kinship caregivers in diversion arrangements.

Presents new data showing the foster care system’s significant reliance on relatives, and highlights the need for subsidized guardianships as another permanency option for children for whom reunification with parents or adoption is not viable. It also features new data on Latino children, from Generations United (2007).