Press release announcing new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation that identifies efforts by states, DC, and Puerto Rico to promote kinship care and support kinship caregivers. It highlights progress made at reducing barriers to foster care licensing, long-standing inequities in financial assistance for kinship caregivers and new opportunities to address their needs.

The survey’s data, collected in 2022 by Child Trends, and analysis will be shared in a series of six briefs addressing aspects of kinship care policy.

Research article by Angela Tobin, Amanda Klein-Cox, and Ramona Denby that examines how kinship caregivers were impacted by the switch to online service provision during the COVID-19 pandemic. Includes insights from interviews with kin caregivers and child welfare professionals and discusses considerations and best practices for using virtual supports for kinship families.

Congressional Research Services one-pager displaying statistics and basic information about children living in kinship care in the US. Includes data related to state, foster care status, age, income, race, and public benefit usage.

Recommended foster caregiver licensing standards created by Child Welfare Playbook, ABA Center on Children and the Law, Generations United, and Think of Us, with input from agency staff, licensing workers, subject matter experts, foster caregivers, and former foster youth. The document includes a list of recommended standards, the reasonining for certain standards, tools for implementing the standards, background check guidance, and form templates.

2023 Emory Law Journal article by Rachel Kennedy arguing that children have a constitutional right to family intergrity and counsel in dependency proceedings.