Foster Care and Permanency

Foster Care and Permanency

The Center for States helps agencies build capacity to develop, implement, and sustain a broad-service continuum to promote increased safety, permanency, and well-being for children and youth in foster care. Strategies include building capacity in addressing concepts of normalcy and reasonable and prudent parent standards, providing family-based alternatives to congregate care, and offering support services to kinship and guardianship families. Our focus will also include best practices and strategies to improve placement stability and permanency. Peer networks for foster care managers will also be used to build capacity.

Publications 

• Working With Children and Youth With Complex Clinical Needs: Strategies in the Safe Reduction of Congregate Care 

Product Suites

• Quality Matters: Improving Caseworker Contacts With Children, Youth, and Families

Videos

• Perspectives on Normalcy: Videos and Discussion Questions
• Authentic Voices Video Series: Sharing Our Perspective
• Empowering Caregivers, Strengthening Families Video Series

Learning Experiences

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• Achieving Placement Stability

Webinars

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• Post Reunification Supports and Prevention of Reentry into Out of Home Care
• Meeting Health-Care Needs of Children and Youth in Foster Care

Resources From Related Focus Areas

• Having the Normalcy Conversation Series

More From Information Gateway

• Health screening for children and youth in foster care [Library Search Results]
• Health care issues for youth transitioning from foster care [Library Search Results]
• GAO reports on health care issues with children and youth in foster care [Library Search Results]
• Health care needs of children in foster care [Library Search Results]