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Our Five Pillars of Impact
Strengthening Families Across the Full Care Continuum
One Coordinated Framework of Support
Foster Kinship’s model supports children, caregivers, parents, youth, and professionals through every stage of non-parental care. From prevention and reunification to permanency, youth transition, and systems change.
Families navigating kinship care, reunification, adoption, guardianship, and youth transition often face fragmented systems and disconnected resources.
Foster Kinship’s Five Pillars of Impact create a coordinated, evidence-informed framework that strengthens families, reduces deeper child welfare involvement, and helps children remain safely connected to family and community.
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The Five Pillars
Pillar
Family Forward
Kinship Strong
Thriving After
Strong Futures
Kinship Univeristy
Population
Parent (birth) Households impacted by CWS removal
Kinship (Relative/Fictive Kin) Households (Formal/Informal)
Adoptive/Guardianship (Kin/Traditional) Households (Public/Private)
Youth aged 16-24 who have experienced nonparental care
Navigator Staff/ Professionals/ Kinship Serving Orgs
Location
Statewide (NV)
Statewide (NV). The Navigator Program only is also licensed and replicated in Utah, South Carolina, Minnesota, and New York.
Statewide (NV)
Statewide (NV)
National
Goal
Support reunification, stabilize post-reunification, and prevent foster care reentry. If reunification is not possible, support co-parenting and open adoption options.
Stabilize kin families to prevent disruption into stranger foster care/congregate care and improve outcomes for children.
Support and maintain permanency, prevent foster care reentry or use of RTC/hospitalizations. Support any/all family needs post permanency, and provide targeted interventions of combined services, like Roots of Resilience, for generational healing so children and their adoptive families can thrive.
Support, advocacy, training and connections to equip young adults for future success and prevent system involvement.
Provide best practices for others serving any of these populations by supporting Kin-First CWS practices and FFPSA prevention efforts.
Evidence-Based Results
Families who engage with Foster Kinship’s programming are:
3x more likely
to access the services they need
2.9x less likely
to experience placement disruption
Children are more likely to remain safely connected to loved ones, caregivers are more likely to access critical resources, and families are less likely to experience deeper involvement in the foster care system.
Every Family's Journey Looks Different
