Nearly 2.5 million children in the U.S. are growing up in kinship families being raised by relatives, or close family friends. Research is clear – when children can’t stay with their parents, they do best with kin. Kinship families offer greater stability … Read More
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
Highlights From Evaluating an Intergenerational Community That Supports Children Formerly in Foster Care
This brief summarizes the results of Child Trends’ evaluation of the program, which was guided by two key research goals: (1) to assess how Bridge Meadows delivers its services and how well they align with the organization’s mission and social … Read More
Healthier Lives Across Generations: A Blueprint for Intergenerational Living
The Blueprint is a call to action and a strategic plan designed to promote intentional intergenerational housing and communities that foster meaningful interactions among people of all generations. Download the Report (PDF) Watch the Recording of the Release Event Download … Read More
PATHWAYS TO SUCCESS K-12 Education Support for Kinship and Grandfamilies
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
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
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
Fact Sheet: Children Thrive in Grandfamilies
More than 2.5 million children across the U.S. are raised in grandfamilies (also known as kinship families).1 These are families in which grandparents, other adult family members, or close family friends are raising children, with no parents in the home. … Read More
Caring for a Child Affected by Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
Your Experience As a grandparent or other kin caregiver, you are working hard to meet the needs of the child or children in your care. If they were exposed to alcohol before they were born, you might wonder about how … Read More
Intergenerational Evaluation Toolkit
In an effort to collect more data on intergenerational shared sites and facilitate program evaluation, Generations United, with support from The Eisner Foundation, partnered with Dr. Shannon Jarrott of The Ohio State University to develop this toolkit. The Intergenerational Evaluation … Read More
Making the Case for Intergenerational Programs
Provides rationale and facts to help make the case for intergenerational programs Making the Case for Intergenerational Programs is based on a comprehensive review of the literature on intergenerational programs and highlights evidence-based findings on how intergenerational programs benefit everyone. Download … Read More