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.

Series of resources based on a comprehensive survey of kinship care policies that identifies increasing efforts by states to promote kinship care and support kinship caregivers of children and youth who are known to the child welfare system.

The series includes an Executive Summary, and briefs describing:

• 1: Policies that support licensure of kinship foster parents;
• 2: Policies that affect unlicensed kinship caregivers;
• 3: Policies that govern kinship diversion;
• 4: Policies that encourage agencies to engage and partner with kinship caregivers, the children in their care, and parents; and
• 5: Policies that include the perspectives of kinship care families in designing solutions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4chpnuaIsRw (PSA)

https://www.youtube.com/user/arizonaschildren  (testimonial)

A user-friendly publication for social service workers, produced by the National Quality Improvement Center for Adoption and Guardianship Support and Preservation (QIC-AG) (2018).