Foster Care Licensing

Review these draft Kin-Specific Foster Home Approval Standards: Recommended Standards of National Organizations Version 1.0. Follow this link to go directly to the draft standards.

This crosswalk tool will assist title IV-E agencies compare their current licensing or approval standards with the Kin-Specific Foster Home Approval: Recommended Standards of National Organizations in an effort to identify areas of alignment and identify areas for change to align with these standards.

Administration for Children and Families Program Instruction to provide instruction and attachements to title IV-E agencies on title IV-E plan amendments resulting from the promulgation of Separate Licensing Standards for Relative or Kinship Foster Family Homes (88 FR 66700). 

Casey Family Programs Information Packet on how to support placement and licensing of kinship homes including jurisdictional examples and tools. July 2020.