Navigating the Child Welfare System in Kentucky, Building the Voices of Lived Experience: Lessons Learned from Navigating the System VIEW NOW

The Fostering Connections report examines the housing challenges facing young adults in Louisville with a foster care experience and systemic barriers that contribute to those challenges. It also offers recommendations to improve outcomes and promote stability among foster care alumni. VIEW NOW

The Residential Foster Care Analysis Report examines issues often seen in residential and institutional placements and offers recommendations to improve the outcomes of the youth in foster care. VIEW NOW

In A Kentucky Grandparent and Relative Caregiver Handbook, caregivers will find information on the basics of kinship care and the court process, tips for engaging with birth parents and navigating the complex child welfare system, and resources to help the vulnerable children in their care grow and thrive. VIEW HANDBOOK

This toolkit can help child welfare leaders and professionals, advocates, private providers, and other stakeholders understand Family First and talk about how it will improve outcomes for kids and families in Kentucky. VIEW TOOLKIT

Every child needs a family and a safe place to call home. This issue brief provides recommendations to ensure children who have experienced abuse or neglect receive an appropriate level of care and have a chance to grow up in the care of a family. VIEW NOW

Kinship care is an extremely valuable alternative to traditional foster care that allows children to retain strong familial bonds when children cannot stay in their homes with their parents. This issue brief summarizes the findings of a series of focus groups, interviews, and surveys conducted with kinship caregivers and support providers and offers recommendations for increasing supports for kinship families. VIEW NOW