This book is the first to provide strategies for effective advocacy and placement within the foster care and kinship care systems. It also takes a rare look at

The rapid growth of kinship foster care--full-time parenting of children by relatives or other adults who have a kinship bond with a child--has caught many chil

Kinship care – the care of children by grandparents, other relatives or friends – is a major part of foster care, yet there are distinct issues that arise i

KINSHIP FOSTER CARE: POLICY, PRACTICE, AND RESEARCH assembles the thinking and research of experts from several professional fields concerning what has become t

Kinship foster care involves placing children who cannot live at home in foster care with other members of their family or close network. This book sheds light