Paper based on interviews with more than 40 agencies across 10 states which outlines the key challenges and success factors to increasing kinship care placements and summarizes how technology can help practitioners better identify and engage kin and save worker time.

A memorandum from the Children's Bureau, which informs states and Tribes of the enactment of the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act and provides basic information on the new law, including title IV-E plan changes, new case plan requirements and definitions, additions to the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS), modifications to the Family Connection grants, Chafee program, and reauthorization of the Adoption and Guardianship Incentive Program (2014).

This report was mandated by LEGACY, the nation's first affordable housing law specifically for grandparents and other relatives raising children.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has launched a new tool that allows individuals who don't normally file a tax return to register for economic impact payments. It is available at www.irs.gov/coronavirus/non-filers-enter-payment-info-here  

Another new IRS tool allows individuals to input their bank information and track their stimulus payment - www.irs.gov/coronavirus/get-my-payment