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Older youth in Kansas foster care will have a new path to permanency available to them after passage of a bill codifying the SOUL Family concept

The first tribal and state governments have been approved by the Biden administration for an alternative path to licensing kinship caregivers

A new report on kinship caregiving in America shows that federal spending to help relatives care for the children of loved ones as increased

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Challenges are myriad for an aunt seeking to adopt her nephews — from decades-old “attachment” theories to perceptions of courtroom body language.

Despite laws prioritizing kin care, Minnesota officials have sided with a foster parent vying to adopt two brothers, blindsiding their aunt.

The Biden administration announced a mix of final and proposed rules on child welfare policy today that cover the placement of foster youth with relatives, legal representation for parents and children involved with the system, and the placement of LGBTQ youth in foster care. 

A group of child welfare leaders are developing new recommended standards for licensing and approving kinship caregivers.

At 18 I got everything I felt that I needed to be stable so that I don't have to ask for another thing from my family, writes Antania Goff.