Component #1:
Individualized assessment and placement services for children and youth

• Initial and ongoing assessments of children and youth’s placement needs
• Therapeutic/behavioral interventions
• Wraparound

Component #2:
Recruitment, assessment, selection and support of caregivers

• Recruitment and outreach
• Assessment and decision making
• Support and training for caregivers
• Placement-specific services

Component #3:
Placement stability policies and practices for child welfare organizations

• Sibling placement policies and practices
• Engaging children, parents and foster parents in placement decision making and case planning
• Agency staffing when a placement move is considered
• Parent-child visits
• Practices to strengthen the connections between parents and foster parents
• Caseworker training and retention
• Caseworker visits:  with children, with foster parents and with parents
• Data tracking about placement moves and reasons for moves