How can birth and foster parents partner to achieve reunification?
Listen to an audio recording to learn how birth and foster parent partnerships can build trusting relationships and lead to reunification.
Permanency
Heartland Rapid Permanency Reviews
This report presents compelling data that supports Heartland for Children’s success in achieving permanency for youth receiving RPRs.
How can birth and foster parent partnerships help families reunify?
Learn how a foster parent and parent partner worked together to wrap supports around a birth mother so she could reunify with her child.
What are kinship navigator programs?
This strategy brief provides information about key elements of kinship navigator programs, jurisdictional examples, and evaluation outcomes.
What impacts placement stability?
This issue brief explores the importance of placement stability and the challenges that prevent it.
What are some considerations for using placement matching tools?
This issue brief describes tools to help child protection agencies identify the right first placement and improve placement stability.
Guardianship Assistance Policy and Implementation: A National Analysis of Federal and State Policies and Programs
Interviews with state guardianship experts and a policy analysis reveal variations in state subsidy rates and strategies for effective use of guardianship as a permanency option.
Partnerships for Permanency in Sacramento County
Permanency case reviews (PCRs) are being used in Sacramento to explore youth’s permanency options and help them find lifelong families.
Supporting Lifelong Families: Steps Child Welfare Agencies Can Take to Prevent Children From Re-entering Foster Care
This action plan highlights the actions child welfare leaders can take to reduce re-entries into foster care and support long-term permanency.
Supporting Lifelong Families: Ensuring Long-Lasting Permanency and Well-Being
This research brief addresses re-entries into foster care, relevant programs and services, and recommendations for supporting long-term permanency.