Article by the ABA Section on Litigation clarifying the misunderstanding that the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (ASFA) creates a legal preference for adoption over all other permanency options, including guardianship, when reunification is determined to no longer be feasible.

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

This Annie E. Casey Report identifies three major themes for engaging and empowering foster parents: ensuring quality caregiving for children; forging strong relationships; and, finding and keeping more amazing caregivers (2016).

Casey Family Programs' 2024 signature report. The report includes insights from communities and systems that have chosen to create cultures where kin are prioritized when children must be removed from their parents, and from families about the difference that choice has made in their lives.

ABA Journal Children and the Law Article Series highlighting advocate support for kinship care and the use of shadow foster care systems to place children with kin outside of child welfare. August 2023.