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Child Welfare

Family First Prevention Services Act: Implementing the Provisions that Support Kinship Families Checklist

Family First Prevention Services Act makes historic reforms to the child welfare system to better support children, families, and kinship caregivers, and promote a kin-first culture. Many of the reforms have significant implications for connecting children to kinship caregivers and further promoting permanency through kin guardianships. This checklist is designed to help child welfare agency staff take advantage of provisions in the law to engage and support kinship families.

Child Welfare

New Opportunities for Kinship Families: Action Steps to Implement the Family First Prevention Services Act in Your Community

This brief, developed by the ABA Center on Children and the Law, Children's Defense Fund and Generations United, highlights provisions in the Family First Prevention Services Act that help kinship families, along with steps caregivers, advocates, and other leaders can take to help implement the Family First Act. Includes a chart comparing services and supports for kin before and after the Family First Act.

Child Welfare

Family Stability and Kinship Care Act 2015 Summary

Child Welfare

Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act 2010 Kinship Summary

Child Welfare

Sample State Legislation Needed to Implement the Federal Kinship Guardianship Assistance Option Under Title IV-E of the Social Security Act

Child Welfare

Help Children Being Raised by Grandparents and Other Relatives and Their Relative Caregivers by Expanding and Establishing Kinship Navigator Programs 2009 Fact Sheet

Child Welfare

Kinship Care Resource Kit

Child Welfare

Kinship Care Resource Kit - Communities with Kinship Families

Child Welfare

Kinship Care Resource Kit for Community and Faith-Based Organizations

Child Welfare

Kinship Care Resource Kit: Helping Grandparents and Other Relatives Raising Children