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Subsidized Guardianship: Collaborating to Identify New Policy Opportunities

This document reports on a December 2006 symposium on subsidized guardianship, held in Boston, Massachusetts. The event, sponsored by the Annie E. Casey Foundation/Casey Family Services, Generations United, and Tufts University, brought together stakeholders from 12 states to share information about subsidized guardianship as a means to maintain permanent family connections for vulnerable children and youth.

The report offers background on achieving permanence through guardianship, as well as policy recommendations for expanding access to subsidized guardianship throughout the country. Key to the work is an understanding of financial barriers to allow a more universal application of this option.

Download the executive summary (PDF).
Download the full report (PDF).