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Kinship Caregivers and the Child Welfare System
Factsheet for Families
Author(s):  Child Welfare Information Gateway
Year Published:  2005
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9. Bibliography

Child Welfare Information Gateway. (2004). Decision making for the permanent placement of children. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Children's Bureau.

Child Welfare Information Gateway. (2004). How does the child welfare system work? Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Children's Bureau.

Child Welfare Information Gateway. (2003). Placement of children with relatives (State Statutes Series). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Children's Bureau.

Child Welfare League of America. (n.d.). Kinship care: Best practice guidance. Retrieved September 27, 2004, from http://www.cwla.org/programs/kinship/bestpractice.htm

Children's Defense Fund. (2001). Healthy ties: The grandparent's and other relative caregiver's guide to health insurance for children. Washington, DC: Author. Retrieved November 9, 2004, from http://www.childrensdefense.org/pdf/healthyties_cg.pdf

Ehrle, J., Geen, R., & Main, R. (2003). Kinship foster care: Custody, hardships, and services (Snapshots of America's Families III, No. 14). Washington, DC: Urban Institute. Retrieved December 15, 2004, from www.urban.org/url.cfm?ID=310893

Forging Connections Policy Group. (2004). Forging connections: Challenges and opportunities for older caregivers raising children. New York: New York Council On Adoptable Children, Inc.

Full Circle of Care. (n.d.). Legal issues for grandparents raising grandchildren. Retrieved October 8, 2004, from http://www.fullcirclecare.org/grandparents/grandlegal.htm

Geen, R. (2003). Foster children placed with relatives often receive less government help (Series A, No. A-59). Washington, DC: The Urban Institute. Retrieved October 18, 2004, from http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/310774_A-59.pdf

Geen, R. (Ed.). (2003). Kinship care: Making the most of a valuable resource. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press.

Geen, R., Holcomb, P., Jantz, A., Koralek, R., Leos-Urbel, J., & Malm, K. (2001). On their own terms: Supporting kinship care outside of TANF and foster care. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Retrieved November 9, 2004, from http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/kincare01/

Generations United. (2004). Kinship care—legal options. Retrieved December 1, 2004, from http://ipath.gu.org/factsheets.asp

Generations United. (2004). Kinship care—public benefits. Retrieved December 1, 2004, from http://ipath.gu.org/factsheets.asp

Jantz, A., Geen, R., Bess, R., Andrews, C., & Russell, V. (2002). The continuing evolution of state kinship care policies (Assessing the New Federalism project). Washington, DC: The Urban Institute. Retrieved October 29, 2004, from http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/310597_state_kinship_care.pdf

Jones, E., Chipungu, S., & Hutton, S. (2003). The kinship report: Assessing the needs of relative caregivers and the children in their care. Washington, DC: Casey Family Programs. Retrieved October 9, 2004, from http://www.casey.org/NR/rdonlyres/54020D5E-D726-463C-85F8-9EA1731C5EDE/131/casey_kinship_report.pdf

Malm, K., & Geen, R. (2003). When child welfare agencies rely on voluntary kinship placements (Series A, No. A-61). Washington, DC: The Urban Institute. Retrieved October 9, 2004, from http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?ID=310772

McCarthy, J., Marshall, A., Collins, J., Arganza, G., Deserly, K., & Milon, J. (2003). A family's guide to the child welfare system. Sponsored by the National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health at Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development, Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health at American Institutes for Research, Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health, Child Welfare League of America, and the National Indian Child Welfare Association. Retrieved December 15, 2004, from http://gucchd.georgetown.edu/files/products_publications/AFamilysGuide.pdf

Perez-Porter, M. (2003). HELP for grandparent caregivers. Albany: NY: City University of New York, Brookdale Center on Aging of Hunter College, Grandparent Caregiver Law Center.

Schulzinger, R. (2002). The grandparent's and other relative caregiver's guide to food and nutrition programs for children. Washington, DC: Children's Defense Fund. Retrieved November 8, 2004, from http://www.childrensdefense.org/childwelfare/kinshipcare/grandparents_guides/food_and_nutrition.pdf

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2000). Report to the Congress on kinship foster care. Washington, DC: Author, Children's Bureau.

Woodworth, R., Dabelko, H., & Hollidge, M. (1998). Respite services to support grandparents raising grandchildren (ARCH Factsheet No. 45). Chapel Hill, NC: ARCH Respite Network. Retrieved December 1, 2004, from http://www.archrespite.org/ARCHFS45.pdf

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