Family Stabilization/ KINDship Care
Few things are more important to a child’s development than stability. For children in the foster care system who have been abused, abandoned, or neglected, stability can be hard to come by.
How does Voices for Children ensure that children in the foster care system have the best chance at living a safe, stable life?
VFC ensures stability for children in foster care by expanding and strengthening kinship care.
Our Family Stabilization Program is also known as KINDship Care. Kinship care is care provided by a family member or close friend who opens their home to care for a child who would otherwise be placed in a foster home. By strengthening these placements, we can improve outcomes for children and help keep them connected to people they know and trust.
How We Support Kinship Families
Voices For Children provides critical financial support to help stabilize kinship care households, including assistance with:
- Housing
- Utilities
- Food
- Clothing
- Furniture
- Other essential household expenses
We also provide hands-on support through our Kinship Care Navigator, who helps kinship families navigate resources and services. Our Kinship Care Navigator assists by:
- Helping kinship families stabilize placements
- Supporting long-term permanency for children
- Connecting caregivers to resources and guidance
- Helping create safe, stable, and nurturing home environments
Why is kinship care so important?
Research shows that, compared to children in non-relative foster care, children in kinship homes experience:
- Greater placement stability and fewer disruptions
- Higher likelihood of achieving permanency
- Better behavioral and mental health outcomes
- Stronger preservation of cultural identity and community connections
Kinship care doesn’t happen on its own. It takes a strong network of support, and community investment, to make it possible.
We need your help ensuring that children who have experienced abuse, neglect, or abandonment can access safe, stable kinship care whenever possible.
