Event and Conference Materials
Subsidized Guardianship: Collaborating to Identify New Policy Initiatives
The event served as a working session on policy analysis and a review of funding strategies available to state agencies to support children placed with guardians, as well as children in the care of relatives who are not in the child welfare system.Tags: connecticut, policy, vermont, subsidized guardianship, relative caregivers, maine, massachusetts, new hampshire, rhode island
Their Day in Court: Adequate Representation for Children and Parents in Child Protective Services
This legal representation forum brought together legal experts, legislators, state officials, judges, advocates, parents, and young people to learn about effective ways in which lawyers represent children and parents involved with protective services in other jurisdictions.Tags: foster care, connecticut, legal representation
Relatives Raising Kin: Kinship Care in Bridgeport, Connecticut
This working session held at the mayor’s office in Bridgeport, Connecticut, convened grandparents and other caregivers who have taken responsibility for raising their relative children outside the state-sponsored child welfare system.Tags: connecticut, relative caregivers
2006 National Convening on Youth Permanence
The National Convening on Youth Permanence challenged the paradigm that older children and youth in foster care are unlikely to develop strong family connections before reaching the age of majority.Tags: permanence, national convening on youth permanence
Subsidized Guardianship: A Policy Solution to Address Racial Disparities in Child Welfare
This Casey co-sponsored symposium explored how subsidized guardianship policies and practices could help to reduce racial/ethnic disproportionality and disparities in the child welfare system while supporting a broader range of permanency options.Tags: adoption, foster care, subsidized guardianship, relative caregivers, racial equity, family reunification