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Resources to support professionals in ensuring a legally permanent, nurturing family for every child in out-of-home care through family reunification, adoption from foster care, guardianship, and permanent placements with relatives. Includes information on legal and court issues, preparing and supporting children and youth, interjurisdictional placements, postpermanency services, and special issues in achieving permanency for older youth, children from minority groups, and children with disabilities.

Overview
History, strategies and programs, legal and court issues, preparing and supporting children and youth, interjurisdictional placements, postpermanency services, and frequently asked questions.

Permanency for special populations
Older youth, children from minority groups, and children with disabilities.

Family reunification
Engaging parents, working with substance-abusing parents, and preventing reentry to foster care.

Adoption from foster care
Strategies and programs, foster/adoptive families, children waiting for adoption, legal issues and laws, and National Adoption Month.

Guardianship
Subsidized and standby guardianship.

Permanent placements with relatives
Includes resources for relative/kinship caregivers.

	Related Information Gateway Topics Supporting and preserving families: Family preservation services Out-of-home care: Independent living Out-of-home care: APPLA and LTFC

Updated on December 7, 2007