Practice & Policy Focus:
Kinship Care in Child Welfare

• Included are suggestions on:
• -identifying kinship ties as a resource of social capital;
• -determining quality care in kinship homes;
• -supporting grandparents in enriching the education of special needs grandchildren; and
• -assessing the best permanency option.

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Browse the Practice & Policy Focus archive:

• Kinship Care in Child Welfare
  (2008, Issue 3)
  
• Psychiatric and Clinical Social Work
  (2008, Issue 2)
  
• Opportunities in Organizational Change
  (2008, Issue 1)
  
• Art of Social Work Practice
  (2007, Issue 4)
  
• Working But Poor: Next Steps for Social Work
  (2007, Issue 3)
  
• Fathering and Fatherhood
  (2007, Issue 2)
  
• Social Work with At-Risk Youth
  (2007, Issue 1)
  
• Best Practices in Foster Care and Adoption
  (2006, Issue 2)
  
• Ethics and Risk-Management in Social Work
  (2006, Issue 1)