PA: Ideas We Should Steal: Finding Families for Foster Kids (Includes video)
Philadelphia Citizen – August 25, 2021
Among social service professionals, Family Finding is represented most prominently by Kevin Campbell, a child welfare consultant who had observed that youth in foster care needed help that they weren’t getting. The family finding concept was first mandated by federal legislation in 2008, and a bill first passed in Pennsylvania in 2013 “to ensure that family finding occurs on an ongoing basis for all children entering the child welfare system” and “to promote the use of kinship care when it is necessary to remove a child” from their home. ‘”Family Finding is about creating permanency,” says Campbell, “and that could be legal permanency in terms of where the child lives, or relational and emotional permanency, in terms of who the child has available for support.”
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