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Kinship Care: When Parents Can't Parent: Full Transcript of Session
[First Tuesdays Transcript] Of the 1.8 million children who live with relatives instead of their parents, an arrangement known as kinship care, nearly a quarter faces multiple social and economic risks, according to new Urban Institute research. States are increasingly relying on kinship care when parents can no longer parent, yet several key questions remain. How and when should child welfare agencies use relatives to act as foster care parents? How, if at all, should these agencies treat kin caregivers differently than non-kin foster caregivers, in terms of licensing, payment, and supervision? And how can government provide greater support to all types of kinship care, without creating incentives for parents to give up their children or for kin to seek out child welfare involvement when there are no child protection concerns?
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Kinship Care: An Unmet Challenge for the Greater D.C. Area
In this edition we talk about kinship care in the Washington area. Kinship care being the practice of relocating abused and neglected children with relatives rather than to a foster care situation that may involve living with strangers. In the District alone, some two-thirds of the children in foster care are in the care of relatives in Virginia and Maryland. That seems to be a staggering number. And in this region, it would appear everybody is dealing with the issue of kinship care somewhat differently.
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Kinship Care: Prevalence, Benefits, Challenges
Kinship care is not a new idea. It has meant a member of the family or a family friend taking the kids when things got rough, or someone maybe from the church stepping in to provide a stable environment for an abused child. But now the federal and state governments are becoming more involved?for better or worse?in kinship care, and it's raising all kinds of questions. Joining Kojo is Rob Geen, a senior researcher with the Urban Institute.
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Kinship Care: When Parents Can't Parent
Of the 1.8 million children who live with relatives instead of their parents, an arrangement known as kinship care, nearly a quarter faces multiple social and economic risks, according to new Urban Institute research. States are increasingly relying on kinship care when parents can no longer parent, yet several key questions remain. How and when should child welfare agencies use relatives to act as foster care parents? How, if at all, should these agencies treat kin caregivers differently than non-kin foster caregivers, in terms of licensing, payment, and supervision? And how can government provide greater support to all types of kinship care, without creating incentives for parents to give up their children or for kin to seek out child welfare involvement when there are no child protection concerns?
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Kinship Foster Care: Custody, Hardships, and Services
According to data from the 2002 National Survey of America's Families, 405,000 children lived in court-involved kinship foster care in 2002. Fifty percent of children in kinship foster care live in low-income households compared with 24 percent of children living with non-kin foster parents.
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Kinship Care: Making the Most of a Valuable Resource
Since the early 1980s, states child welfare agencies? use of relatives as foster parents has grown rapidly, yet little information is available on this practice. This lack of information has made it difficult to evaluate how well kinship care ensures children?s safety, promotes permanency in their living situation, and enhances their well-being?three basic goals of the child welfare system. Kinship Care: Making the Most of a Valuable Resource sheds light on this changing issue. Using a study involving focus groups of child welfare workers and kinship caregivers, in addition to interviews with local administrators, advocates, and service providers, the authors describe frontline kinship care practices in today?s system. They also examine how and when child welfare agencies use kin as foster parents, how their approach to kinship care differs from traditional foster care, and how kinship care practices vary across states. The book also features the experiences of actual kinship foster parents, their challenges, and their interaction with agencies and the courts. Finally, the book provides recommendations for policy development, worker and caregiver training, and issues for further research.
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Children in Kinship Care
2.3 million children lived in kinship care in 2002. Most children in kinship care live with grandparents. Children in kinship care often live in families experience hardships.
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Family Care or Foster Care?: How State Policies Affect Kinship...
In this brief will examine the insurance status of low-income parents nationally and by state. We then describe the extent to which low-income parents have children who are enrolled in Medicaid and the potential to cover them under Medicaid through section 1931 provisions.
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Finding Permanent Homes for Foster Children: Issues Raised by...
Kinship care has a far-reaching impact on child welfare agencies' permanency planning efforts and the permanency outcomes of foster children. While long-term foster care is discouraged, workers feel much less urgency to terminate parental rights, close a case, or push for adoption when children are living with kin. Many agencies do not encourage kin to adopt and others do a poor job of explaining the need for adoption or how adoptions differ from other permanency options. Kin may have legitimate reasons and financial incentives for not wanting to adopt.
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The Continuing Evolution of State Kinship Care Policies
This study presents the findings of a 2001 survey of state kinship foster care policies, a follow-up to those conducted in 1997 and 1999. The results show that many states are continuing to offer kin leeway in, or alternatives to, the traditional foster care licensing process, yet simultaneously striving to meet the safety requirements of the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA). Almost all states give preference to kin over non-kin foster parents, although states differ in how they assess and support kinship care families. Many states have instituted a stricter policy since the implementation of the ASFA final rule, and there are many kin caring for children in foster care who are not eligible to receive foster care payments.
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