What is Family Finding and Permanency
The Family Finding model, developed by Kevin A. Campbell, offers methods and strategies to locate and engage relatives of children currently living in out-of-home care. The goal of Family Finding is to connect each child with a family, so that every child may benefit from the lifelong connections that only a family provides.
Core beliefs inherent in this approach are:
1) Every child has a family, and they can be found if we try
2) Loneliness can be devastating, even dangerous, and is experienced by most children in out of home care
3) A meaningful connection to family helps a child develop a sense of belonging, and
4) The single factor most closely associated with positive outcomes for children is meaningful, lifelong connections to family. - Read More
Current Projects
The Path Out of Foster Care Crisis Runs Through Family
By Kevin Campbell and Jill Borgeson
Family Finders Helping Vulnerable WA Kids
By Kate Campbell
Good Business, Real Results: Time for Radical Change in Child Protections
By Kevin Campbell
Learning Brief: Lifelong Connections Initiative
By Robert Friend and Melissa MartinThis learning brief explores the evolution of exemplary practice, along with the elements and conditions primarily responsible for its development, in a combined Family Finding/Family Group Decision-Making model implemented by a partnership between San Francisco Human Services Agency and Seneca Family of Agencies.Core themes were synthesized from a series of individual and dyad interviews with team members who carried out the project, lifting up what worked and was learned in the process.
Andrew Turnell talks about Signs of Safety and Family Finding
Kevin Campbell talks about Family Finding and Signs of Safety
Ask Us About
Contact info@familyfinding.org about having these resources shipped to you:
- CPYP Organizational Developmental Guide for Youth and Permanency (45pg Guide Book)
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From Place to Place (DVD)
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California Permanency for Youth Project "Telling It Like It Is: Foster Youth and Their Struggle for Permanency" (DVD)
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Emancipated Youth Connections Project "Permanency Stories" (DVD)
Agency Resources and Publications 
- Seneca Search Services to support identifying potential family members
- Resources for agencies and publications from our Family Finding Experts
- NIPFC's Permanency Blast Archives
- Kevin's Family Finding Newsletter Archives
Featured Trainings 
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- Family Finding and Engagement Trainings, Workshops and Keynotes
- Building Court and Stakeholder Collaboration
- Strategic Planning Sessions for Leadership
- Multi-disciplinary Trainings on Concurrent Planning and Relative Care