About 2.5 million children across the United States are being raised in grandfamilies,1 families in which grandparents, other adult relatives, or close family friends are raising children with no parents in the home. These are also known as kinship families, … Read More
Grandfamilies
Guide for Providers: No-Cost Training Resources on Kinship/Grandfamily Mental Health Needs
Background Kinship families and grandfamilies form when grandparents, other relatives, or close family friends provide primary care for children whose parents are unable to do so. Kinship/ grandfamilies come together for a variety of reasons, including substance use, child welfare … Read More
Legal Assistance for Native Kinship / Grandfamilies Involved with Child Welfare: How to Find an Attorney & Help Them Help You
Do you need legal advice? When you become involved in a child placement custody case (whether the child was removed from your home or you are a grandparent or other relative who would like to care for the child), it … Read More
Building Generational Resilience: Supporting BIPOC Grandfamilies and Kinship Families’ Mental Health
Have you ever felt the need to be seen and acknowledged? It’s a universal desire, right?! Unfortunately, the Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) community often doesn’t receive the recognition it deserves, especially concerning mental health and wellness. That’s … Read More
Resource Guide for Kinship/Grandfamily Providers
The 2022 National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers provides a roadmap for organizations and agencies to better support kin/grandfamily caregivers and the children they raise. Kin caregivers, also called grandfamily caregivers, are grandparents, other relatives, or close family friends raising children as … Read More
Latino Grandfamilies: Helping Latino Children Thrive Through Connection To Culture And Family
Toolkit Introduction About 2.7 million children live in grandfamilies or kinship care, families in which children are being raised by grandparents, other extended family members, and adults with whom they have a close family-like relationship such as godparents. According to … Read More
Supporting Kinship Families of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children
Introduction n recent years, record numbers of unaccompanied immigrant children (UC) have crossed into the United States. Between 2017 and 2022, over 385,000 UC were apprehended crossing U.S. borders. This special population of immigrants are defined as children under the age of 18 who … Read More
2023 State of Grandfamilies Report Release Event
Over 2.4 million children in the United States are living in grandfamilies. These are families where grandparents, other relatives, or close family friends are raising children because the children’s parents are unable to do so. The report aims to bring … Read More
Grand Resource: Help for Grandfamilies Impacted by Opioids and Other Substance Use Part 2
More than 2.6 million children are raised by grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings, other extended family and close family friends who step forward to care for them when parents cannot. With the rise in heroin and other opioid use, more relatives … Read More
Adoption and Guardianship for Children in Kinship Foster Care
The laws dictating how adoption and guardianship are granted, by which court, and what those options entail are developed at the state and tribal levels, so the intricacies for obtaining these legal relationships differ. The Brief The brief provides general … Read More