Kinship Foster Care

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• When Children Cannot Remain Home: Foster Family Care and Kinship Care
  Jill Duerr Berrick (from The Future of Children)
• Finding Permanent Homes for Foster Children: Issues Raised by Kinship Care,
  Rob Green, Urban Institute, April 2003
• Children Cared for by Relatives: Who Are They and How Are They Faring?,
  Jennifer Ehrle, Rob Geen, and Rebecca Clark, Urban Institute, February 2001
• Report to the Congress on Kinship Foster Care
• Kinship Care: An Evolving Service Delivery Option <-Special Issue of Children and Youth Services Review
• Kinship Care from Welfare Information Network

• for Kinship Care (takes a while to load, but very useful)

Kinship Care State Fact Sheets These Fact Sheets provide data on grandparents and other relatives raising children from the 2000 U.S. Census, information highlighting innovative and key programs that exist to support kin caregivers, details on the policies that affect foster care kin caregivers, and an overview of state laws and regulations that relate to kin care.

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