Law review article by Megan Schmidt in the University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review. The article explores hidden foster care in the U.S. during the COVID era, and offers an approach to balance the inevitable tension that surfaces when child welfare agencies push for “under the table” removals while impoverished families try to stay together.

Alliance for Children's Rights and Lincoln Advocacy report exploring the scope of issues created when child welfare professionals bypass juvenile court for children at risk of entering foster care. The report summarizes information from focus group discussions and a survey of impacted individuals, including diverted families, child welfare workers, kinship service providers, minors’ and parents’ counsel, and social services agency staff across California. The report also incorporates recent research and policy analysis in the form of recommendations to better support children and families.

This guide developed by the ABA Center on Children and the Law offers an overview of five principles that have emerged from state child welfare court decisions where a parent’s immigration status is part of the case facts.

List of articles from The Imprint that relate to hidden foster care.

Toolkit created by the Foster Family-based Treatment Association developed to be a practical resource to create strategies that will engage and support kin who are caring for children and youth with treatment needs. The toolkit includes: tips for establishing public/private partnerships for kinship treatment foster care; making the case for treatment foster care with kinship families; barriers to kinship treatment foster care; kinship TFC in action across the country-tips from the field; clinical considerations in working with relative caregivers; kinship outcomes review-findings from the literature; checklist for planning a kinship treatment foster care initiative; resources for conducting a Kinship Treatment Foster Care Summit; useful kinship resources, and more.