Comments

"Kinship care is the next great challenge on the child welfare horizon. This volume, both timely and comprehensive, offers policymakers and practitioners the information they need to develop more thoughtful approaches for serving kinship families. Provocative, insightful, and a welcome contribution."

—Jill Duerr Berrick
Professor, University of California at Berkeley

"Kinship Care provides a comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of the issues, research findings, practices, and policy debates surrounding kinship care. Its wealth of data and objective presentation make it a major contribution to the ongoing debate on foster care and permanency planning for children in the child welfare system. This book is a valuable resource for federal and state policymakers, educators, child welfare workers, and researchers."

—Sandra Stukes Chipungu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Howard University School of Social Work

"Geen and his colleagues have successfully combined a thorough synthesis of their wealth of qualitative data on state child welfare practices with thoughtful analysis of state policies. Kinship Care: Making the Most of a Valuable Resource is essential reading for scholars, policymakers, and advocates interested in how states are using kin to care for children in need."

—Mark E. Courtney
Ph.D., Director, Chapin Hall Center for Children, University of Chicago

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