National Center for Youth Law 50-state permanency policy analysis. This brief explores the diversity of state policies and practices aimed at supporting teens’ need for a permanent connection to a family. Recommendations are aimed at helping child welfare agencies use a variety of strategies to achieve permanency for teens, with an emphasis on the use of kinship families.

Examines kinship care in New York and other states, as well as the history of subsidized guardianship and its fiscal impact, from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Social Work (2010). 

Summary of state waivers and variances. ABA and CLASP (2010)

Children’s Bureau, Administration on Children, Youth and Families report to Congress on children placed in relative foster family homes and the use of licensing waivers (2011)