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Alberta.ca Increases to Caregivers Rates & Information Regarding Transition to Adulthood Program March 2024
The Alberta Government is investing in increases to caregivers rates over the next 3 years. The total amount to be invested in this support is $22 million, divided over the next 3 years, based on the Consumer Price Index.
Foster, Kinship Care, and Transition to Adulthood: Do Child Welfare System Processes Explain Differences in Outcomes?
This study from Elsevier Children and Youth Services Review Volume 153, October 2023, 107098 examined teenage parenthood and incarceration based on initial placement in kinship or nonrelative family foster care.
ALIGN Kinship Focused Literature Search to Inform Kinship Redesign 2.0 2021
The following focused literature search and environmental scan was conducted to support the development of the Kinship Care Redesign in Alberta 2.0 Report for ALIGN Association of Community Services.
ALIGN Report Agency Response: Kinship Redesign in Alberta 2021
Our team with ALIGN met with Elders Dr. Reg and Rose Crowshoe in October 2021 for a conversation about kinship care in Alberta. Discussion questions included: What principles should agencies adopt when supporting/delivering Kinship Care? What standards of practice should be built to ensure best practice? This is a summary of what we heard.
Foundations of Caregiver Support (FCS) Report
This document provides the vision and purpose of the Foundations of Caregiver Support and a description of it’s three foundational pillars: child development, trauma, and loss and grief.
Alberta.ca Child Intervention Caregiver Package PS4LLC Practice Strategies for Lifelong Connections (CIPF)
Alberta.ca Practice strategies were initially focused on the “front end” – intake/assessment/initial status/placement decisions. The Practice Strategies for Lifelong Connections shift to a relationship based focus. We used leading research and evidence to inform their design. The development of the strategies was guided by staff, caregivers, and agency partners. This includes feedback from AFKA conferences, presentations, and representation on committees
