Explore how child welfare professionals and organizations can build capacity for implementing the reasonable and prudent parent standard (RPPS) for children and youth in foster care. 

Learn about the value of kinship placements when children and youth must live outside their birth parents’ homes. 

Bruce and Brenda have been married for 33 years and have four daughters. From 2006 to 2009, they provided a kinship placement for their four grandchildren. In 2010, the couple adopted Bruce (now 18 years old), Tre’Nae (now 15 years old), Mason (now 13 years old), and Kiaunna (now 10 years old).

This handout is part of the series, “Perspectives on Normalcy: Videos and Discussion Questions.” It is designed to facilitate discussion about the issues raised in the video, “Kinship Adoption: You Get a Call, ‘Do You Want These Kids?’”

Explore insights on using protective capacities and protective factors to build a continuum of practice that extends from safety to strength-building. 

Learn to prepare transgender children and youth for court and support them in the courtroom.

Discover how data sharing can improve the child welfare court system.

Get practical guidance for building organizational capacity and for implementing flexible and innovate programs for youth engagement.