Lead Measure 4: Placements with Relatives or Fictive Kin
Why is this lead baseline measure important? Monitoring the percentage of placements with relatives is crucial for promoting family connections, improving child outcomes, and aligning with best practices in child welfare. Placements with relatives help maintain cultural, familial, and community connections, which are important for a child's identity and stability. They also strengthen family networks and build a support system for the child and their family. This metric reflects the number of children placed with family members (relatives) or fictive kin as opposed to non-relative foster care or other care settings. This graph displays the percentage of youth in placement who are with kin at any given point in time. What is significant about this graph? AFCARS data indicates over a 5-year look-back period, the percentage of children placed with relatives or fictive kin in Kentucky was lower than the national percentage.
Data Source: Data Advocacy Casey Family Programs: 08.20.2024 Datasource: public NCANDS and AFCARS files obtained from NDACAN. Prepared by Foster America.
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