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Preventing Foster Care or Shifting the Burden? The Urgent Need to Develop a Shared Understanding of Nonparental Family Types and the Child Welfare System’s Role in Kinship Family Formation

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Article by Ali Caliendo from First Focus' Big Ideas 2023 that examines various out-of-home kinship care arrangements and the different issues they present. The article argues that a development of a standardized framework to discuss kinship care is long overdue in the child welfare field in the context of child welfare policy and practice. Recommendations include requiring child welfare systems to collect and report data based on the universal nonparental family types touching the child welfare system; requiring states to outline how kinship care will be used as part of a state FFPSA prevention plan; further delinking kinship resources from foster care status, and recognizing the need for independent kinship navigator programs.

Prioritizing Black Kinship Caregivers’ Health Means Reducing Their Stress

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Child Trends brief by Tyreasa Washington and Dominique Martinez that examines stress faced by Black kinship caregivers and its negative impact on their health. The brief offers recommendations to use protective community resources to expand or develop culturally relevant preventions and interventions and health services that improve Black kinship caregivers’ stress levels and reduce their risk of health challenges.

Program Instruction and Attachments - ACYF-CB-PI-23-10: Title IV-E Plan Amendment - Separate Licensing Standards for Relative or Kinship Foster Family Homes

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Administration for Children and Families Program Instruction to provide instruction and attachements to title IV-E agencies on title IV-E plan amendments resulting from the promulgation of Separate Licensing Standards for Relative or Kinship Foster Family Homes (88 FR 66700). 

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