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). 

Law review article by Courtney Lewis on how Alaska could improve outcomes for families, including adopting the Model Family Foster Home Licensing Standards and revising the state relative placement laws (2017). 

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 fact sheet reviews state licensing standards related to immigrant caregivers serving as placement resources for children in the child welfare system.  Summary of fact sheet also available here (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).