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Getting To Guardianship: Impacts of Kinship Guardianship Subsidies on Guardianship Permanency for Foster Care-Involved Youth

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Clé publique

doi:10.2139/ssrn.6530943

Auteurs

Jenna Shelton

Année déclarée

2026

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2026-11-10T01:26:20.344066+00:00

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Résumé documentaire — langue originale

Federal child welfare policies increasingly aim to support kinship guardianship, reflecting evidence that children placed with relatives experience better outcomes. However, estimates on the effects of kinship placement vary considerably by data quality, measurement choices, and approaches to selection bias. This study examines the impact of Title IV-E KinGAP, which offers federal financial assistance to relatives who assume legal guardianship of foster children in their care. Using linked administrative data and exploiting variation in the timing of state KinGAP enactments across the United States from 2009 to 2018, I employ event study methods to examine impacts on exit to guardianship. Results indicate that Title IV-E KinGAP did not significantly influence the likelihood of exiting foster care or exiting to a guardianship placement. These findings suggest that financial support alone may be insufficient to encourage kinship permanency and identifies complementary policy opportunities to more effectively promote kinship placement and permanency for children in foster care.,The Kinship Guardianship Assistance Program (KinGAP) was authorized through the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 and incentivizes relative guardianship for children in foster care through subsidization with the goal of increasing permanent placement with kin. KinGAP guarantees that children continue receiving financial support once they leave foster care through a kinship guardianship arrangement (HHS, 2021). As of 2021, 37 states and the District of Columbia have enacted Title IV-E federally subsidized guardianship assistance for youth in kinship care. The remaining 13 states did not adopt the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008, but may offer kinship care through expanding state programs, which is controlled for in this study. I use child-level data from national administrative records, state-level child welfare policies, and an original database of effective dates of federally-subsidized Title IV-E KinGAP legislation with quasi-experimental methods to examine the effect of Title IV-E subsidized KinGAP on the probability of exiting to guardianship as a permanency outcome.

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DOI

10.2139/ssrn.6530943

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US

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Elsevier BV

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