AGENCY TESTIMONY
Meeting the need: Foster home capacity and kinship placements
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ACS prioritizes placing children with relatives or close family friends and has implemented new contracts to enhance foster care programs and meet current needs.
- New contracts for family-based foster care, residential care, and supervised independent living began in July 2023
- Prioritize placements with relatives or close family friends to reduce trauma and improve stability
- When kin are not available, children are placed in non-kinship family foster homes
- Focus on right-sizing capacity while enhancing foster care programs
Jess Dannhauser
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When a child is placed in foster care, ACS strives to ensure that children are safe and receiving the highest quality of care, that foster parents, both kinship and non kinship, are receiving the supports they need, and that parents receive the services, supports, and family visits they need to safely reunify.
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Our new contracts for family based foster care, residential care, and the supervised independent living program began in July 2023 and enables to right size capacity to fit with our current needs while enhancing the foster care program in a number of ways.
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When children and youth come into care, we prioritize placements with relatives or close family friends because we know that being placed with someone familiar helps reduce trauma, improve stability, and aids in renewed communication efforts.
0:08:41
When kin or fictive kin are not found initially, children are typically placed in non kinship family foster homes.