Welcome to Kinship Center Kinship Center is a California nonprofit agency dedicated to the creation, preservation and support of foster, adoptive and relative families for children who need them. With a core belief that every child deserves a family, Kinship Center has remained focused on our mission for more than two decades – to connect children to safe, permanent families that will be there for a lifetime. Adoption is a core service from which our other services have evolved since 1984. Kinship Center specializes in the development of permanent families – through adoption or relative care – for California’s foster children aged birth to 18, including hard-to-place sibling groups, children with severe medical disabilities or mental health problems, and children with the trauma of past abuse, neglect or abandonment. Adoptive parents often need help coping with these special needs, and Kinship Center is a recognized leader in post-adoption support including parent education and mentoring, family support groups and counseling, emergency intervention, and clinical therapy for children. Each year Kinship Center helps more than 1800 children through adoption or permanency-related services, and provides a lifeline to more than 2000 foster, adoptive and relative families. Our Adoption Clinical Training (ACT) enhances the practice of child welfare and mental health professionals nationwide.