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Assessing and Licensing Relative/Kinship Caregivers

Resources and information about assessing and licensing relatives to care for children in out-of-home care.

Assessing Adult Relatives as Preferred Caregivers in Permanency Planning: A Competency-Based Curriculum (PDF - 312 KB)
National Resource Center for Foster Care & Permanency Planning (2002)
Designed to prepare child welfare supervisors to provide the educational and administrative support social workers will need as they identify and assess relatives who could be considered as first placement resources for children in out-of-home care.

Assessing and Supporting Kinship Care Givers
Bellefaire JCB (2003)
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Curriculum to improve social work practice with families who are caring for the children of relatives.

Licensing and Payment of Kinship Foster Parents
Templeman (2003)
In Kinship Care: Making the Most of a Valuable Resource
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Examines how local child welfare agencies assess kin before placing a child in their care and how this assessment differs from the licensing of nonkin foster parents.

Kinship Care: Best Practice Guidance
Child Welfare League of America
Provides best practice guidelines for child welfare professionals working with kinship families.

A Retrospective Support Assessment Study of Foster and Relative Care Providers (PDF - 290 KB)
Children's Research Center (2005)
A study to develop an assessment to classify foster and relative providers by the likelihood that they will provide inadequate care to a child, using data collected from the case files of 560 foster and relative providers.

Training for Kinship Caregivers (PDF - 115 KB)
National Resource Center for Family-Centered Practice and Permanency Planning (2006)
Compilation of State policies and approaches regarding training and assessment for kinship caregivers.

Updated on March 1, 2010