Promoting Permanency Through Kinship Families Act

This bill prioritizes kinship care (placement with relatives or family-like caregivers) as a permanency option for children in foster care. It requires states to actively seek out and support kinship placements, removes barriers like age limits for caregivers and overly broad criminal record checks, and makes kinship guardianship assistance mandatory rather than optional. The bill also establishes new support services including crisis stabilization, family finding, and assistance to help kinship families remain stable. These changes directly affect children in foster care, their potential kinship caregivers, and state child welfare systems, aiming to reduce negative outcomes associated with youth aging out of foster care.