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Assessing Resource Families
Resources and information about assessing potential foster families' ability to provide care for children according to State laws and policies.
The Basics of Adoption Practice
Adoption is a highly specialized field that focuses on placing children with families and providing services to ensure that these placements are permanent. In recent decades, the emphasis of adoption practice has shifted from helping families find children to finding safe and permanent families for children. Adoption workers are now expected to have extensive knowledge and understanding of the recruitment and assessment of adoptive families, the placement of children with a variety of strengths and needs, and supportive postadoption services to promote attachment and permanency for children. This bulletin provides an overview of the basics of adoption practice and the ...
Casey Foster Applicant Inventory (CFAI) User's Manual (PDF - 969 KB)
Children's Mental Health Services Research Center (2003)
Introduces the CFAI, explains how to score and administer it, and answers frequently asked questions.
Foster Family Assessments
Casey Family Programs
Free tools for agency workers and foster parents to help with the foster family assessment process.
Foster Parent Assessment Tools
University of Tennessee Family Foster Care Project & Casey Family Programs (2004)
Links to two standardized measures to determine the capacity of foster parents to care for children.
The Foster Parent Potential Scale
Orme, Buehler, McSurdy, Rhodes, & Cox (2003)
View Abstract
Describes the findings of field tests of the Foster Parent Potential Scale (FPPS), a new measure of the potential of foster family applicants to provide quality foster care.
Kinship Care: Best Practice Guidance
Child Welfare League of America
Provides best practice guidelines for child welfare professionals working with kinship families.
A Retrospective Support Assessment Study of Foster and Relative Care Providers (PDF - 290 KB)
Children's Research Center (2005)
A study to develop an assessment to classify foster and relative providers by the likelihood that they will provide inadequate care to a child, using data collected from the case files of 560 foster and relative providers.
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