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Resources
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.
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PowerPoint Presentations
- Partnering to Promote Guardianship: The Federal Outlook
This presentation from the Center for Law and Social Policy provides an overview of the needs of children being raised by grandparents and other relatives because their parents are unable to do so. It highlights key provisions of several federal legislative proposals to address some of the unique needs of these families, and it offers an overview of the current federal policymaking environment.
Websites
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Childrens Defense Fund -Subsidized Guardianship Programs
This website contains several important resources about subsidized guardianship:
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Using Subsidized Guardianship to Improve Outcomes for Children: Key Questions to Consider
Briefs from CDF and Cornerstone Consulting on issues that have arisen as states have launched subsidized guardianship programs around the country. The report offers assistance to those initiating or expanding subsidized guardianship programs to help ensure that they truly benefit children.
- States' Subsidized Guardianship Laws at a Glance
This report provides a state-by-state look at the programs and describes which children and caregivers are eligible and the types of available assistance. Detailed tables let the reader directly compare features of the various state programs.
- Expanding Permanency Options for Children: A Guide to Subsidized Guardianship Programs
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Cornerstone Consulting
This website contains several important resources about subsidized guardianship:
- "Preventive" Subsidized Guardianship Programs: An Emerging Option for Permanent Kinship Care (2006)
- Subsidized Guardianship: Helping Children Find Permanent Homes (2005)
- Family Ties: Supporting Permanence for Children in Safe and Stable Foster Care with Relatives and Other Caregivers, co-authored with Fostering Results (2004)
- Using Subsidized Guardianship to Improve Outcomes for Children (2004)
- Expanding Permanency Options for Children: A Guide to Subsidized Guardianship Programs (2003)
- Guardianship: "Another Place Called Home" (2001)
- Child Welfare Information Gateway: Guardianship
Resources and links from this Service of the Children's Bureau.
Last update 04/14/08
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