As part of CWLA’s Standards of Excellence series, this 135-page document sets forth principles of good practice for serving children, parents, and caregivers in kinship care arrangements. These standards include a description of kinship care as a discrete child welfare service, the components of good social work practice with kinship care families, the supports and services needed by kinship families, how kinship care services should be organized and administered, and types of community based support services for kinship families. The standards are useful as a summary of the prevailing wisdom of child welfare professionals regarding appropriate kinship care services in the United States.
