Keeping Kids with Familiar Faces, When Possible

State teams are already trying out different strategies to improve the potential of kinship care for kids who are removed from parents' care--including interviewing children in shelter placements to identify possible relative caregivers in Oklahoma, using a specific form to ask biological parents for information about possible kinship placements at the time of removal in Washington, and having Child Protective Services investigation workers ask parents, "Whom do you call when you need help with your children?" in Utah. (See the document, Kinship Care and the Breakthrough Series Collaborative.)