This two-part special issue focuses on children in kinship care—those who are being raised by grandparents, aunts and uncles, older siblings, and non-related extended family members—to bring attention to this less visible area of public child welfare, featuring policy-based and empirical research on kinship families.
Articles in this special issue include:
- From the Editor: The Apple Tree Has Many Healthy Apples: Kinship Caregiving
- Introduction: Kinship Care Policy and Practice: (First Issue)
- Health and Well-Being of Children in Kinship Care: Findings from the National Survey of Children in Nonparental Care
- New Directions for Kinship Care Policy and Practice: A Position Paper from the Kinship Summit at Albany, New York, September 2016
- A Kinship Navigator Program: A Comprehensive Approach to Support Private and Voluntary Kinship Caregivers
- Using Kinship Navigation Services to Support the Family Resource Needs, Caregiver Self-Efficacy, and Placement Stability of Children in Informal and Formal Kinship Care
- Placement Stability of Children in Informal Kinship Care: Age, Poverty and Involvement in the Child Welfare System
- Protective Factors as Mediators and Moderators of Risk Effects on Perceptions of Child Well-Being in Kinship Care
- Using Family Group Decision Making to Assist Informal Kinship Families
- Supporting Kinship Caregivers: Examining the Impact of a Title IV-E Waiver Kinship Supports Intervention