Policy proposal from the 2025 Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute's annual Foster Youth Internship Program report. Recommends promoting due process, equitable support, and transparency in informal foster care placements by providing parents with legal counsel immediately at the time of interaction with CPS, expanding financial and supportive services for informal kin caregivers, tracking data about the use of kinship diversion, and collaboration between probate and juvenile courts for guardianships.

This Annie E. Casey Foundation KIDS COUNT policy report underscores a simple fact about childhood: Family matters. Yet, today in America, 57,000 children are still living in group placements. Readers will learn about limiting the role of residential treatment care to its intended purpose and how state and local leaders can work together to enhance family-oriented services and supports (2015). 

Outlines concrete approaches for states to consider in establishing new subsidized guardianship programs and in improving existing ones to better ensure safety and permanency for children, from Children's Defense Fund and Cornerstone Consulting Group (2003).