Toolkit featuring promising practices that have been helping child welfare agencies across the country increase their kin placement rates. Every practice comes with the necessary real-world tools, such as sample policy language and forms to help you take away new strategies and resources to adapt for your own system or organization. The ideas and materials in this toolkit were compiled from over 35 child welfare agencies across the country who are part of the Child Welfare Playbook & Resource Family Working Group.

Also see the webinar recording and presentation slides about improving your results in kin-finding and placement.

ChildTrends brief summarizing the main findings of a study based in North Carolina that reinforced that kinship care settings support the academic well-being of children who do not live with at least one birth or adoptive parent.

Chapin Hall Policy Brief explaining kinship navigator programs, the evidence-based programs on the Title IV-E Federal Clearinghouse that have ben approved to receive ongoing federal reimbursement, and recommendations to build further evidence in support of kinship navigator programs.

A collective advocacy tool created by Generations United, the ABA Center on Children and the Law, and Think of Us to guide our future work to support kinship families. The action agenda identifies and prioritizes key policy opportunities to support kinship families. It was created through a convening of national advocates, featuring professionals with diverse perspectives and individuals with lived experience in grandfamilies/kinship families, and incorporates feedback from the broader advocacy community, grandfamilies services providers, and focus groups with kinship caregivers from varied backgrounds.

Resource showing where states, territories, and tribes are in the process of adopting kin-specific licensing standards. The map and chart are current as of 5/9/24, and will be periodically updated.