Resources

• All Children Deserve a Permanent Home: Subsidized Guardianship as a Common Sense Solution for Children in Long-Term Relative Foster Care
  This report from Generations United provides state-by-state data on the number of children living in foster care with relative caregivers. Also available in Spanish.

• Strengthening Families Through Guardianship
  This issue brief from Kids Are Waiting discusses the importance of subsidized guardianship programs.

• Fact Sheets on Guardianship
  The National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center has several fact sheets about guardianship, including subsidized, joint, and standby guardianship.

• Finding Permanent Homes for Foster Children: Issues Raised by Kinship Care
  This brief from the Urban Institute examines how local child welfare agencies approach permanency planning with children in kinship foster care and why kinship foster parents may be reluctant to adopt or take legal guardianship of relative children in their care. Kinship care has a far-reaching impact on child welfare agencies' permanency planning efforts and the permanency outcomes of foster children.

Resources from the States

• Iowa: Introducing the Iowa Subsidized Guardianship Waiver Program
  This brochure was developed to help prospective guardian families, judges, attorneys, case workers, and other interested parties, to understand the subsidized guardianship waiver program in Iowa. It is to be given out at the time when the caseworker meets with the prospective guardian of a child assigned to the experimental group and upon request from interested parties.
  
  
• New Mexico: Away from Home: Children and Youth Living Apart from their Parents - Guardianship and Other Options for Family and Friends Caring for Children and Youth
  The New Mexico Guardianship Project of Advocacy Inc. and the New Mexico Court Improvement Project Task Force have produced a booklet describing options and procedures for obtaining legal authority and providing care to children. Information is provided to caregivers and others on kinship guardianship; the State's Caregiver's Authorization Affidavit; Power of Attorney; foster care; and adoption. A succinct description is provided of each option, as well as a brief listing of government benefits and additional sources for information and support. Away from Home: Children and Youth Living Apart from their Parents - Guardianship and Other Options for Family and Friends Caring for Children and Youth is available online from Shaening and Associates.
  

Teleconference

• Permanency through Guardianship: Formulas for Successful Programs
  On January 25, 2005 the NRCFCPPP and CWLA hosted a teleconference for state foster care and adoption managers. To listen to the audio files, visit our archived teleconferences page.

  These PowerPoint presentations were provided to participants:

  • Subsidized Guardianship: A National Perspective
    Presentation by Jennifer Miller, Cornerstone Consulting

  • Family Ties: Supporting Permanence for Children in Safe and Stable Foster Care with Relatives and Other Caregivers
    Presentation by Mark Testa, Children and Family Research Center