The Subsidized Guardianship program has been rated by the CEBC in the area of: Child Welfare Initiatives.

• Child Welfare Outcome: Permanency
• Types of Maltreatment: Does not target any specific kind of maltreatment
• Target Population: Not Specified

Subsidized Guardianship is intended to provide an alternative to foster care for children who cannot be reunited with their parents and for whom permanent adoption is not an option. Under the system, children are cared for by legal guardians, often family members, who receive financial assistance similar to that received by foster parents. Parents may also retain certain rights, such as visitation, that they would not necessarily have in the case of adoption. The program relieves the child welfare system of the level of administrative and caseworker oversight required by foster care, and transfer to a legal guardian helps to assure greater permanency of the placement, since only the court can remove the child.

Publicly available information indicates there is some training available for this program.
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This program is rated a "3 - Promising Research Evidence" on the Scientific Rating Scale based on the published, peer-reviewed research available. The practice must have at least one study utilizing some form of control (e.g., untreated group, placebo group, matched wait list study) establishing the practice's benefit over the placebo, or found it to be comparable to or better than an appropriate comparison practice. Please see the Scientific Rating Scale for more information.