Kinship Care is designed to meet the needs of young people who would benefit from placement with a relative or fictive kin (someone with a close relationship to the young person and/or birth family, though unrelated by blood or marriage). After a home study is completed and the young person is placed, supervision and support is provided to families by our foster care staff. DePaul also offers kinship care search, a service which facilitates the search for an appropriate relative or fictive kin.
Kinship Care
To help young people in foster care maintain connections with their birth families, DePaul offers Kinship Care—a service that finds foster placements within a young person’s extended family.