{"id":1710,"date":"2019-10-22T19:14:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T19:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fosteringperspectives.org\/?p=1710"},"modified":"2019-10-25T18:12:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T18:12:35","slug":"nc-kinship-care-statistics-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fosteringperspectives.org\/?p=1710","title":{"rendered":"NC Kinship Care Statistics (2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kinship care plays an essential role in North Carolina. Of the 11,646 children in DSS custody in our state on July 31, 2019, 2,636 (22.7%) were placed with relatives, most of whom were unlicensed.<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Placements for NC Children in DSS Custody on July 31, 2019*<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fosteringperspectives.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/p9a-pie_1a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1714 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/fosteringperspectives.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/p9a-pie_1a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fosteringperspectives.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/p9a-pie_1a.jpg 479w, https:\/\/fosteringperspectives.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/p9a-pie_1a-300x125.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/a><em>* This figure does not reflect the many people in North Carolina who act as temporary safety providers for their young relatives.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>** Includes group home, hospital, jail, runaway, and other placement categories<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: NC FAST and legacy data systems queried by Management Assistance (<a href=\"https:\/\/ssw.unc.edu\/ma\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/ssw.unc.edu\/ma\/<\/a>) project team under contract with NC DHHS, 9\/18\/19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kinship care plays an essential role in North Carolina. Of the 11,646 children in DSS custody in our state on July 31, 2019, 2,636 (22.7%) [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,1],"tags":[60,258,792],"series":[1550],"class_list":["post-1710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-child-welfare-news","category-uncategorized","tag-kinship-care","tag-placements","tag-statistics","series-november-2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fosteringperspectives.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fosteringperspectives.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fosteringperspectives.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fosteringperspectives.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fosteringperspectives.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fosteringperspectives.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fosteringperspectives.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fosteringperspectives.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fosteringperspectives.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fosteringperspectives.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1710"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fosteringperspectives.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=1710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}