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