State Policies for Assessing and Supporting Kinship Foster Parents [dataset]

Jacob Leos-Urbel, Roseana Bess, Rob Geen
2000 PsycEXTRA Dataset   unpublished
Assessing the New Federalism is a multi-year Urban Institute project designed to analyze the devolution of responsibility for social programs from the federal government to the states. It focuses primarily on health care, income security, employment and training programs, and social services. Researchers monitor program changes and fiscal developments. Alan Weil is the project director. In collaboration with Child Trends, the project studies changes in family well-being. The project provides
more » ... ely, nonpartisan information to inform public debate and to help state and local decisionmakers carry out their new responsibilities more effectively. Key components of the project include a household survey, studies of policies in 13 states, and a database with information on all states and the District of Columbia. Publications and database are available free of charge on the Urban InstituteZs Web site: http://www.urban.org. This paper is one in a series of discussion papers analyzing information from these and other sources. who provided assistance in designing the survey instrument and reviewed early drafts of this paper and provided insightful and helpful comments. Publisher: The Urban Institute, Abstract This study provides updated information regarding states' kinship care policies. Almost all states give preference to and seek out kin when placing a child in foster care. However, states vary in the way that they assess and support kinship care. Most states assess kin differently than non-kin foster parents. Some kin receive foster care payments while others are supported with lesser payments. This paper analyzes the impacts of the Adoption and Safe Families Act final rule on kinship care and discusses the challenge of creating kinship care policies that both ensure child safety and address the unique needs of kin.
doi:10.1037/e691752011-001 fatcat:7lkoceecjjbz7k5wfedi2t274y