Kinship

This issue of CBX (June 2023) highlights reunification and the importance of supporting families as they work toward their reunification goals. Read a message from Associate Commissioner Aysha E. Schomburg... (Read more)

This resource is designed as a quick reference tool for practitioners – including social workers, government and nonprofit workers, and community leaders working with grandfamilies and kinship families who identify... (Read more)

This resource is designed as a quick reference tool for practitioners and advocates working with grandfamilies and kinship families who identify as American Indian or Alaska Native. It is meant... (Read more)

Kin/grandfamily caregivers’ ideas about their roles in protecting and providing for the children in their care depend on their families’ values and cultures. Working with Black and Indigenous families requires... (Read more)

Each year, 22,000 young people age out of foster care without family structures in place to support them. It's an issue Sixto Cancel is working to address. He's the founder... (Read more)

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... (Read more)

This publication— Helps kinship families and the professionals who assist them compare caregiving options. Provides a broad, national overview about the choices and considerations to help caregivers make informed decisions... (Read more)

In recent decades, questions have arisen as to whether or not removing children from their primary caregivers (who are frequently their biological parents) is an effective strategy for protecting and... (Read more)

This tool, created for lawyers, aims to help increase the chances of a youth being placed with kinship caregivers, when removed from their home. Read the resource here .(Read more)

Kinship navigator programs offer information, referral, and follow-up services to caregivers to link them to the benefits and services that they and the children need. Some of the programs are... (Read more)