This video highlights the story of a family specialist in Ohio who partners with families to identify safe and healthy kinship connections that empower children, youth, and families.

This video highlights the story of a kinship foster parent and her experience navigating the kinship caregiver process in New York City by using the Kinship Guardian Assistance Program (KinGAP).

Explore this tip sheet to learn about child welfare agency and court responsibilities related to APPLA provisions and strategies to achieve permanency.

Explore the benefits of reunification and post-reunification supports and how these strategies help prevent reentry into foster care. 

Review the protective capacities and protective factors frameworks used to assess, intervene, and serve families.

The video highlights the story of a kinship caregiver and how becoming a licensed foster parent working with social services and her local child welfare agency resulted in better support and resources.

Explore models and approaches for targeting safety outcomes.

This video highlights the story of a school social worker in Rhode Island and her experience becoming a foster parent to a student who did not have a relative placement.

Listen in as parents and workers share their perspectives on the value of and approaches to improving comprehensive assessment of parents. 

This video highlights the story of a family specialist in Ohio and her experience working with families to successfully place children with kin.

This video highlights the story of a kinship specialist with the New York City Children’s Services and how she collaborates with fellow child welfare agencies in identifying kinship guardians to result in successful kin placement.