Sentences with phrase «in kinship»

The presence of childhood trauma was higher in kinship care than in unrelated foster care.

International research has found significant benefits for children and young people in kinship care, including:

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A new report, Needs of Kinship Care Families and Pediatric Practice, released by the American Academy of Pediatrics, discusses how awareness of a patient's placement in kinship care can better assist pediatricians in addressing their patient's health and wellness.

The report goes on to identify recommendations for pediatricians to identify kinship placements and community resources for referral as well as other practices that can assist children in kinship placements, within the pediatric practice.

Grandparents Plus welcomes proposals in the Children and Social Work Bill to improve support for looked after children and calls for support to be extended to children growing up in kinship care.Read more

Dr Lucy Peake, chief executive of Grandparents Plus, said: «Many children in kinship care are vulnerable, and at the moment they're being let down by a system that focuses on the result of a legal lottery rather than their needs.

«Children in kinship care should be entitled to the same level of support as children who are fostered or adopted, regardless of any legal arrangement in place, or if there is one or not.

The Department of Human Services funds kinship care services to improve the support available for children growing up in kinship care.

These community - based kinship care services provide a range of cultural and support services for children in kinship care and their families close to where they live.

Intensive support services — for the most vulnerable children placed in kinship care as a result of child protection involvement.

Requires the Department of Social Services to review current policies governing facilitation of placement of children in kinship care to avoid foster care placements and shall develop recommendations for regulations governing kinship placements which shall include specified recommendations.

Provides a child placed in kinship foster care shall not be removed from the physical custody of the kinship foster parent, provided the child has been living with the kinship foster parent for six consecutive months and the placement continues to meet approval standards for foster care, unless the kinship foster parent consents to the removal, the removal is agreed upon at a family partnership meeting, is court ordered, or warranted under existing law.

The amendments primarily focus upon: - A duty on local authorities to explore suitable wider family placements prior to a child becoming looked after, including offering families a family group conference; - Extending the provisions to support educational attainment of previously looked after children to all children in kinship care.

Allows an eligible dependent child to receive cash assistance during the period in which the dependent child is in the legal custody of DCS, a tribal court, or a tribal child welfare agency and is placed in kinship foster care with a nonparent relative.

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According to the Annie E. Casey Foundation there are over 64,000 children in kinship care in Michigan.

Providing strategies to cope with the behavioral and emotional issues children in kinship care may present

Federal legislation strongly encourages adoption as a viable permanency option for children in kinship care.

It is based on a survey of national policies and practices for children looked after in kinship care across the 32 local authorities in Scotland, and an intensive study of 30 children living with 24 kinship families in five local authorities.

The study analysed microdata from the latest 2011 Census to map the number of children growing up in kinship care households.

The University of Bristol study found that the majority (76 %) of children in kinship care live in a deprived household, with 40 % living in households located in the 20 % of the poorest areas in England;

The study found that an estimated 152,910 (1.4 %) of the 11.3 million children in England in 2011 were living in kinship care — a seven per cent growth from 2001.

Thanks also goes to Grandparents Plus with whom we jointly conducted the Understanding family and friends care: local authority policies report and our partners in the Kinship Care Alliance.

The study also provides an estimate of the number of children living in kinship care arrangements in Scotland as being 13,444.

The survey provides an important snapshot of the experiences and circumstances of kinship carers and the children they are raising, helping overcome the significant paucity of data on children in kinship care and their carers.

Local authorities should recognise and meet the needs of children in kinship care by providing practical, emotional and financial support and Government needs to ensure there is funding to achieve this.

Find resources that describe the changing family dynamics in kinship families and how evolving relationships can impact relative caregivers and all family members.

Children in kinship care should have access to the same right to support as those who are adopted, including access to the Adoption Support Fund for therapeutic help.

Children in Kinship Care Experience Improved Placement Stability, Higher Levels of Permanency, and Decreased Behavioral Problems: Findings From the Literature (PDF - 81 KB) Grandfamilies.org (2015) Summarizes research suggesting that kinship caregivers provide improved placement stability, higher levels of permanency, and decreased behavior problems to children in care.

Propensity Score Matching of Children in Kinship and Nonkinship Foster Care: Do Permanency Outcomes Still Differ?

Final Report (PDF - 125 KB) Winokur, Crawford, & Longobardi (2006) Uses a matched case design to compare children in kinship care with children in foster care on available child welfare outcomes.

Matched Comparison of Children in Kinship Care and Foster Care on Child Welfare Outcomes (PDF - 171 KB) Winokur, Crawford, Longobardi, & & Valentine Families in Society, 89 (3), 2008 Compares the permanency, safety, and stability outcomes for a matched group of children placed in kinship care and foster care.

Foster Care Placement Change: The Role of Family Dynamics and Household Composition Waid, Kothari, Bank, & McBeath (2016) Children and Youth Services Review, 68 Examines family dynamics across different living situations and finds that children placed in kinship care were most likely to achieve permanence.

Koh & Testa Social Work Research, 32 (2), 2008 View Abstract Presents findings that suggest children in nonkinship foster homes show a higher risk for initial disruption after matching, but there is no difference in rates of instability within a year compared with children in kinship foster homes.

Permanency Outcomes of Children in Kinship and Non-Kinship Foster Care: Testing the External Validity of Kinship Effects Koh Children and Youth Services Review, 32 (3), 2010 View Abstract Examines whether the effects of kinship care can be generalized across States by using Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) data obtained for five States that participated in the Fostering Court Improvement project: Arizona, Connecticut, Missouri, Ohio, and Tennessee.

The two brothers were placed in kinship foster care with Nina, their mother's cousin.

The Kinship Treatment Foster Care Initiative Toolkit (PDF - 1,659 KB) Foster Family - based Treatment Association (2015) Promotes the use of public - private partnerships to assist children in kinship care with their social, behavioral, and emotional challenges (treatment needs) while they remain in a stable environment with a relative or adult.

Permanency Outcomes of Children in Kinship and NonKinship Foster Care: Minimizing the Effects of Selection Bias with Propensity Score Matching (PDF - 328 KB) Koh (2008) Discusses the findings of a study that examined comprehensive permanency outcomes of children in kinship foster homes in comparison with those in nonkinship foster care, using Adoption and Foster Care Analysis Reporting Systems (AFCARS) data from Arizona, Connecticut, Illinois, Missouri, Ohio, and Tennessee.

Becoming a Kinship Care Provider (Legal Options) Ellis (2008) In A Kinship Guide to Rescuing Children for Grandparents and Other Relatives as Parents View Abstract Explains reasons children come into kinship care, voluntary kinship care families, and placement situations.

Child Welfare Outcomes in Colorado: A Matched Comparison Between Children in Kinship and Foster Care.

Characteristics of Four Kinship Placement Outcome Groups and Variables Associated With These Kinship Placement Outcome Groups Chang & Liles Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 24 (6), 2007 Investigates factors that might be associated with the disruptions in kinship care of abused and neglected children, characteristics of the children such as their health status, ages, and the extent to which they were getting into «trouble» were significantly associated with outcomes.

Children in kinship care had significantly fewer disruptions and were almost eight times more likely to be in guardianship.

Behavior problems of children in kinship care.

Our research shows that around half of children (52 %) are in kinship care as a result of parental drug or alcohol misuse, although other reasons include bereavement, imprisonment, parental abuse or neglect and parental ill health.

Yet children in kinship care are often overlooked and ignored, and in 95 % of cases have no legal entitlement to support.

The Kinship Care Professionals Group is free to join and is for social workers, academics and other professionals with an interest in kinship care.

The findings add another key layer of our understanding of kinship care, and will drive our work in transforming support for children in kinship care and their carers.

There are currently around 30,000 children being raised in kinship care across London, with an estimated 200,000 children being raised by relatives across the UK.

She has worked for County Department of Human Services in the adoption unit and in the kinship unit.