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Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services-Fall 2007 E-Alert
 
12/15/2008
 

PRACTICE & POLICY FOCUS
Issue 3, 2008

 
Kinship Care in Child Welfare
 
New issue compares best practices in assessment, placement, and permanency.
 
The new edition of Practice & Policy Focus discusses kinship care outcomes for children receiving out-of-home care with relatives. The online newsletter, a supplement to Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services, is provided to the practice community as part of the Alliance for Children and Families’ knowledge-building efforts for the field.
  


 

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)
 

  
 
What's New?
 
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.

In the e-version of Practice & Policy Focus, readers can click on the article title boxes within the document to access additional information. Links to over 30 related articles from the journal’s extensive archive are also included in the newsletter.

To access the full text of the archive articles online, subscribers should log in to their subscription account.
 
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