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Kin-first Policy Guide Toolkit

This toolkit is intended to be a practical implementation guide of a kin-first framework. It contains best practice recommendations from child welfare agencies that have placed more than 70% of children with kin as their first placement. The toolkit includes what is required by law, best practices on staffing, leveraging available funding, and processes for implementing a kin-first framework. Click to download PDF version:

Kin-First Policy Guide

Full web version of the Toolkit coming soon!