Archives for August 2021

Big shift in NJ foster care — 70% of kids placed with ‘kin’

When kids in New Jersey need to be taken from their homes due to unfortunate circumstances such as abuse and neglect, their next stop isn’t what most people may think of as a traditional foster home.

There’s been a big push in the Garden State to connect these kids with a relative, family friend or close contact, because statistics suggest these types of connections make a big difference in outcomes for the impacted children.

https://nj1015.com/big-shift-in-nj-foster-care-70-of-kids-placed-with-kin-within-a-month/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery&utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral

BLOG: Kinship Care and New Jersey’s Revised Kinship Legal Guardianship Act

Kinship care – placing children with relatives rather than non-relative foster parents – is associated with significant benefits for children and youth, including improved mental and behavioral health. Specifically, kinship care may help mitigate the trauma of removal when children are placed with relative caregivers who they know and with whom they share a relationship. As a result, children and youth in kinship care are less likely to experience behavioral challenges compared to children and youth in other placement settings.

BLOG: Kinship Care and New Jersey’s Revised Kinship Legal Guardianship Act