Strategies
- Ask children and youth about their kin
- Use an expansive legal definition of kin
- Assign someone dedicated to engaging kin
- Require senior staff sign-off for non-kin placements
- Document and track kin connections
- Include placement and recruitment teams in case planning
- Use court hearings as checkpoints for kin engagement
- Continue efforts to engage kin throughout the case
- Use multiple contact methods to engage kin
- Start with small requests when contacting kin
- Use social media to engage kin
- Improve kin communications through user feedback
- Use a red team to prevent placements in group homes
- Provide childcare at caregiver events and trainings
- Include caregivers in recruitment efforts to bring in new caregivers