Kinship Care

Kinship care is the full-time care of a child by a relative or another member of the extended family. This type of arrangement is the most common form of out of home care throughout the world and is typically arranged without formal legal proceedings. In many developing countries, it is essentially the only form of alternative family care available on a significant scale.

 

Displaying 261 - 270 of 580

Frank Van Holen, Julie Van Loock, Laurence Belenger, Johan Vanderfaeillie - Children and Youth Services Review,

Concept mapping was used to identify the needs of grandparents who take care of their grandchildren in formal foster care in Flanders (Dutch speaking part of Belgium). 

Chris Beckett, Jonathan Dickens, Gillian Schofield, Georgia Philip and Julie Young - Children and Youth Services Review ,

The paper draws on a mixed methods study the role and effectiveness of Independent Reviewing Officers in England. 

Dinithi Wijedasa, Hadley Centre for Adoption and Foster Care Studies, University of Bristol,

This policy brief provides the most current estimates of the number and characteristics of the children growing up with relatives in the UK, which were established through analyses of secure microdata from the 2011 Census, highlighting analysis and policy implications of those findings.

UNICEF Rwanda,

This video from UNICEF Rwanda shows some of the moving stories of children and their new families who have been brought together through the TMM initiative, which reintegrates children who have been living in institutions into families and the community. 

Julie Treinen & Michele Schmidt - Children's Bureau,

This podcast gives listeners an overview of how Arizona Kinship Support Services implements the Family Group Conference (FGC) model.

Deborah J. Monahan, Katie Kietzmann, Carrie Jefferson Smith & Vernon L. Greene - Journal of Intergenerational Relationships ,

This article examines whether and how felt caregiver burden influences the reported propensity of caregivers to want to adopt the children in their care.

Urban Institute under contract to the U.S. Administration for Children and Families,

Aiming to assist providers to identify and better serve the needs of youth victims of human trafficking, this study developed and pretested a Human Trafficking Screening Tool used to identify youth in the child welfare system and runaway and homeless youth who have experiences of trafficking, 

Ching-Hsuan Lin and Angela R. Wiley - Children and Youth Services Review ,

This study utilized data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to examine how kinship care affects maternal stress and parenting practices in racial/ethnic and immigrant families in the United States. 

Ching-Hsuan Lin & Angela R. Wiley - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study examines whether the use of relative child care improves maternal parenting practices. Data from 3475 families in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study were used to examine how relative child care is related to parenting behaviors and how the patterns present among each racial/ethnic and immigrant family. 

Fred Sakyi Boafo, Yvonne Norman and Kwabena Frimpong-Manso,

This presentation by key actors in children's care reform in Ghana provides an overview of the demographic data of Ghana and offers a thorough review of the situation of children's care, and care reform efforts, in the country.