Research & Reports

• Alaska Fostering Connections Act Implementation Report
  Provides an overview of the state's child welfare population, budget, native tribes, and the progress (as of 2009) the state has made toward implementing the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act
• Alaska: A Guide to Child Protective Services for Relatives
  This guide provides an excellent example of a resource for relative caregivers that explains the child welfare and child protection process. It is designed to help relatives understand the reasons children come into the care of the Office of Children's Services, the responsibility of the state, the role of the court, the importance of relatives and the options available to relatives.

National Resources

Research & Reports

• Practice Principles for the Recruitment and Retention of Kinship, Foster and Adoptive Families for Siblings
  A set of principles for keeping siblings together. Produced by Adopt Us Kids, and funded by the Children's Bureau.
• Relative Foster Care Licensing Waivers in the States: Policies and Possibilities
  This document covers relative licensing waivers for foster care. It discusses examples of what states are doing, and options that states have.
• Pursuing Permanence for Children in Foster Care: Issues and Options for Establishing a Federal Guardianship Assistance Program in New York State
  Provides an overview of the options for New York State Kinship Guardianship Assistance Programs.
• Reasonable Efforts to Preserve or Reunify Families and Achieve Permanency for Children
  A description of Reasonable Efforts as it applies to family reunification.
• New Help for Children Raised by Grandparents and Other Relatives: Questions and Answers About the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008
  This question and answer guide aims to ensure full and prompt implementation of the improvements in the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act for children being raised by grandparents and other relatives.
• Strengthening Families Through Guardianship
  This publication provides a brief overview of guardianship and why it is important as a permanency option for children in foster care
• Subsidized Guardianship: Testing the Generalizability of an Idea Whose Time Has Finally Come
  This powerpoint presentation provides an overview of the results of Tennessee's subsidized guardianship waiver
• Child Welfare and Child Support: Working Together to Help Families
  Published by the Administration for Children and Families, this document provides advice on how child support and child welfare agencies can work together to identify family resources for children at risk of or in foster care
• The Indian Extended Family and Its Relationship to Parenting
• Securing Child Safety, Well-being, and Permanency Through Placement Stability in Foster Care
  Provides an overview of how to achieve successful placement stability within foster care.
• "Green Book"- Child Welfare section
  The U.S. House Ways and Means Committee "Green Book" section on child welfare includes information on federal programs dedicated to child welfare purposes, including program requirements, spending and characteristics of children served.
• Child Welfare Outcomes 2003-2006: Report to Congress
  Child Welfare Outcomes 2003-2006: Report to Congress is a report created by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (the Department) to meet requirements of section 203(a) of the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (ASFA).1 ASFA amended section 479A of the Social Security Act to require an annual report on State performance. Child Welfare Outcomes 1998 was the first report created in the Child Welfare Outcomes series of reports.