Children’s Rights Families Over Facilities: Ending the Use of Harmful and Unnecessary Institutions and Other Group Facilities in Child Welfare Systems report provides both a Declaration of Urgency and an Adaptable Toolkit of practical steps state child welfare agencies, caseworkers, and service providers can take to end institutionalization, keep families together and children out of foster care, and when that is not possible, dramatically increase the placement of children with other family members.

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