Established in 2011, Clark County Nevada’s Foster Kinship agency provides educational and supportive services to formal kinship caregivers of children without safe and stable parental homes. In 2019, Preston Management and Organizational Consulting was awarded a contract to evaluate Foster Kinship’s navigator program for formal families. The evaluation contract required the completion of two separate, but interrelated, empirically-based studies. The purpose of the initial qualitative evaluation was to determine Foster Kinship staff’s level of fidelity to its navigator program manual. The aim of the second quantitative evaluation was to ascertain if Foster Kinship’s navigator program for formal kinship families met the minimum standard for promising practice under FFPSA’s evidence-based requirements (Wilson et al., 2019).
