Family Finding & Kevin Campbell

Family Finding is a set of strategies to find lifelong supports for children and young people in the foster care, mental health, juvenile justice, and other child serving systems now being used throughout the United States and the Province of British Columbia. Family Finding contends that, given the chance and with the passage of time - which includes personal maturation along with changes in family situations - appropriate biological family connections can be made or reestablished for youth in care. Family Finding acknowledges the family separation and loss that occurs when youth enter and remain in foster care.

Family Finding’s approach to connecting and reconnecting youth with their families includes an extensive search and discovery process to identify and engage family members. Internet-based search tools, such as US Search, are used to identify and locate family members we may not know. Strong efforts are made to connect/reconnect youth with family members or relative resources who live as close as next door or across the country.

Mr. Campbell is an internationally known youth permanency expert and founder of the Center for Family Finding and Youth Connectedness. He has been an administrator, director, and vice president of private social service agencies for 21 years. Kevin’s work has also been featured on CBS’s 60 Minutes, in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and cited in many professional journals.