How do you decide where to place a child who has needs to be placed into foster care? Making the decision to place a child in foster care is one of the most challenging tasks a social worker has to perform and requires the consideration of a number of factors. In this interactive workshop, we will be exploring how our personal and professional experiences shape our values and impact making placement decisions as individuals and as child welfare organizations. We will examine strategies for engaging and considering relative and kinship foster care placement options to maintain familial connections and achieve successful permanency outcomes for children in care. Lastly, we will discuss how child welfare best practice and policy guides the placement decision making process. This workshop is limited to 50 participants, but will be offered three times during the conference.