Sentences with phrase «kinship placements»
"Kinship placements" refer to placing a child with a relative or someone closely connected to their family, rather than placing them in foster care or an unrelated adoption. Full definition
• Identify the unique setting characteristics of children's special needs within the context of kinship placements.
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Across the nation, current trends show increased reliance on kinship placements within child welfare.
Kinship Care and Communication: Family Portraits Project «Helping Teens to Tell Their Stories» (PDF - 803 KB) Dunifon & DiSciullo (2011) Cornell University Department of Policy Analysis and Management Discusses a project that developed strategies to support the development of positive communication and strengthen family dynamics to promote open communication between grandparents and teens in kinship placements.
The increasing use of kinship placements across the country (AFCARS, 2003) suggests that this perception of child welfare workers was accurate.
Kinship placements tend to be stable and provide children with another permanency option (Benedict, Zuravin & Stallings, 1996; Beeman et al., 1996).
DAI submitted a statement of support for the Family Stability and Kinship Care Act, praising its efforts to enhance family safety and stability, enable kinship placements, and prevent unnecessary stays in foster care, among other areas.
Kinship Support Services in California: An Evaluation of California's Kinship Support Services Program (PDF - 708 KB) Shlonsky, Choi, Piccus, Cardona, & Needell (2004) Highlights findings from the ongoing evaluation of the Kinship Support Services Program, which was designed to support the well - being of California children in formal kinship placements and to minimize the number of children in informal kinship care entering the child welfare system.
Kinship Care (PDF - 55 KB) National Resource Center for Family - Centered Practice & Permanency Planning (2009) Presents a toolkit to help professionals find permanent kinship placements for children in the child welfare system.
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.
Statutory kinship placements occur when Child Protection intervention has occurred and the Children's Court has made a decision to place a child with relatives or a significant friend.
Will TFC agencies begin approving kinship placements as TFC families in order to receive training to care for their loved one's needs and receive the wraparound services that TFC offers?
Ranjit shared with delegates the English courts» approach to child protection, kinship placements and how courts make best interest decisions for children.
We have experience in facilitating the least disruptive options for families, including Aboriginal customary care, kinship placements, and creative custody arrangements.
Child welfare personnel participating in this study tended to believe that kinship placements were beneficial for children of color.
The authors note that kinship placements and adoptions have been steadily rising since the 1990s and lead to better outcomes for children in foster care.
The report strongly emphasises the benefits to children of being in a kinship placement, but also shows that these placements are often not well supported.
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.
This can be provided through fostering, adoption, kinship placements, special guardianship, residential care or living independently.
The report acknowledges that while collaboration between the child welfare, education, health and mental health systems has helped children in kinship placements within the public child welfare system, the same support and benefit has not been felt by children in kinship placements outside of the formal system.
Since then Winangay have developed a number of new resources including a review tool for kinship placements and a couple of non-Aboriginal kinship assessment resources.