2020 Stanford Law Review article written by South Carolina Law professor Josh Gupta-Kagan. The article examines "hidden foster care" - when child protection agencies induce parents to transfer physical custody of their children to kinship caregivers by threatening to place the children in foster care and bring them to family court - and and advocates for regulation.

Grandfamilies & Kinship Support Network brief highlighting the Colorado Department of Human Services' Colorado Kinnected program. Kinnected is a county-administered, state-supervised program. Its mission is to “strengthen the sustainable support community around children, youth, and their families” who are involved with the child welfare system. This mission is accomplished by drawing on the family and child’s existing connections to support the placement of children with kin caregivers. Program goals include efforts to reunify children with their parents and a whole-family approach to prevent the need for children to be involved with child welfare. If kin connections do not already exist, the model is designed to help build a support system. The Title IV-E Prevention Services Clearinghouse gave the program a “supported” practice rating in March 2024, following a December 2022 rating of “promising." Due to its inclusion in the Clearinghouse, the State receives federal reimbursement of 50% of related expenses for each county that implements Kinnected. The program is currently in the process of a state-wide expansion to support any counties outside of the pilot that would like to implement the model.

Memo by the ABA Center on Children and the Law and Generations United examining the federal and state laws that prevent kinship caregivers from becoming licensed based on previous criminal convictions. The memo analyzes state laws and policies related to criminal licensing barriers and explores opportunities to change these policies based on the recent federal rule allowing kin-specific licensing standards.

Fact sheet created by the Congressional Research Service presenting data about kinship care and families in the U.S.

2023 Chapin Hall report examining kinship diversion, listing the evidence surrounding its practice, and giving policy and practice recommendations.