Title IV- E Prevention Services Clearinghouse was established by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) in accordance with the Family First Prevention Services Act to rate programs and services as well-supported, supported, promising, or does not currently meet criteria. The goal of the Clearinghouse is to conduct an objective and transparent review of research on programs and services intended to provide enhanced support to children and families and prevent foster care placements.

US Department of Health and Human Services Guardianship Brief which contains information the program’s implementation including GAP program utilization, similarity to Adoption Assistance expansion efforts, cost of the program, barriers to the program’s use and its impact on other permanency options (2018).

The Handbook describes the Prevention Services Clearinghouse’s:

1. procedures for identifying programs and services and associated research studies for review or re-review;
2. standards for assessing the design, execution, and findings of research studies and for rating programs and services; and
3. definitions of key terms.

Child Trends blog describing challenges faced by kinship caregivers and their children and offers suggestions for how systems can work together to provide a safety net. When systems work together to provide supports, it helps kinship caregivers provide safe, stable, and loving homes to the children in their care.

An important federal rule has changed to support kinship families in the foster care system. This brief resource from the Grandfamilies & Kinship Support Network outlines some of the most fundamental questions and answers about the change.