Child Care and Early Education Service Eligibility Application

Respite Care Provider Handbook - dss.mo.gov

To put it simply, respite care allows one family to temporarily care for another family’s foster child or child they have adopted. Respite care gives foster, adoptive, and relative (kinship) families an opportunity to take a break and reduce stress from ongoing responsibilities, take care of an emergency, or tend to other personal needs.

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Kinship Guardianship as a Permanency Option

caring for the child as a foster parent. Kinship guardianship can be a permanency option for a child in the legal custody of a department of social services when reunification with the child’s parents or permanency through adoption is not feasible. Guardianship creates a legal relationship between a child and caregiver that is intended to

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Foster family: A family where one or more of the children is legally a temporary member of the household. This “temporary” period may be as short as a few days or as long as the child’s entire childhood. Kinship care families are foster families where there is a legal arrangement for the child to be cared for by relatives of one of the ...

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