What is the Kinship Care Program?

 

The Kinship Care Program is a Federally funded program, which provides helpful resources to immediate and extended family members with permanency options for children placed in their care. Grandparents, aunts, uncles or any other extended family members are assisted in making this transaction as comfortable as possible.

Goals of the Project:

  • Increase kinship caregivers' knowledge of advantages of various permanency options.
  • Reduce attrition among families who begin home study process.
  • Increase adoption knowledge within the field of child welfare of strategies for improving permanency outcomes through Kinship Care.
  • Provide training support and community resources.

Our Mission:

  • Maintain children in their families of origin
  • Reunify children with their birthparents or extended family.
  • Increase the number of permanent homes for Black children
  • Elevate the black community's awareness of the need for black adoptive and foster homes.
  • Expand the number of culturally relevant assessment services and culturally sensitive adoption professionals
  • Effect change at the local, state, and national levels.
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Dedicated to the preservation of the Black Family as a unit through provision of Family Preservation, Foster Care and Adoption Services.

 

 

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