Foster Care Kinship Care Quality and Permanency Issues

Addresses how well kinship care is serving foster children by describing (1) the quality of care that children in kinship care receive compared with that received by other foster children, the extent to which foster children are able to maintain contact with familiar people & surroundings, & a caregiver's willingness to enforce court-ordered restrictions on parental visits; (2) the frequency that state child welfare agencies pursue various permanent living arrangements & the time children in kinship care have spent in the system compared with other foster children; & (3) state initiatives intended to help ensure that children in kinship care receive quality foster care & are placed in permanent homes in a timely manner.Mrena, Clarita A. is the author of 'Foster Care Kinship Care Quality and Permanency Issues' with ISBN 9780788184260 and ISBN 0788184261.