When Carl Rolgoff, a social worker at the child welfare agency, was exploring placement options for the Johnson children, he was interested to learn that their maternal grandparents were willing and able to take the children into their home.Placing children with their grandparents is officially called ______.

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Placing children with their grandparents is known as formal kinship care. Foster care is when children are placed with licensed foster parents who are not biologically related to the children. Family preservation is focused on preventing children from being removed from their biological families. Family reunification is focused on reuniting children who have been removed from their biological families with them.

When Carl Rolgoff, a Social Worker at the Child Welfare