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Out-of-Home Care
Resources and information about out-of-home care (also called foster care), including family foster care, kinship care, treatment foster care, and residential and group care. Includes information on working with children and youth in out-of-home care; working with birth families; recruiting, preparing, and supporting resource families (i.e., foster, adoptive, and kinship families); independent living services; placement decisions and stability; and systemwide issues.
Overview
A brief overview of out-of-home care, related resources, and frequently asked questions.
Types of out-of-home care
Family foster care, kinship or relative care, treatment foster care, residential and group care, emergency foster care, shared family care, and APPLA and LTFC.
Kinship care
Features resources for managers of kinship care programs, impact and evaluation of kinship care, locating and working with kinship caregivers, achieving & maintaining permanency in kinship care, and supporting kinship families
Casework practice
Resources and information about working with children and youth in out-of-home care and their birth families, including infants and toddlers, older children and youth, sibling groups, children from minority groups, and others. Other topics include mental and physical health, education, casework practice with birth families, and parent-child visits.
Resource families
Recruiting, preparing, and supporting foster/adoptive parents, foster parents, and kinship/relative caregivers. Information on becoming a foster parent.
Transition to adulthood and independent living
Resources about helping adolescents transition to adulthood and live independently, including information about programs, promising practices, support services, resources for youth, training, and extending out-of-home care for youth past age 18.
Placement decisions
Initial placements into out-of-home care, placement stability and disruption, and interjurisdictional placements.