Kinship in the News
2011
- January 18: Chinatown school works to help grandparents who've become primary caregivers (NY Daily News.com)
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2010
- December 9: NEW YORK STATE OFFICE FOR THE AGING 2010 -11 WINTER REGIONAL TRAINING
PASTA TRAINING: Parenting the Second Time Around
A Full Day Train the Trainer Seminar for Individuals Providing Support Services to Grandparents and Others who are Raising Grandchildren
- November 24: Census: More NY Grandparents at the Head of Thanksgiving Tables (Public News Service: NY)
- November 2: "We are Still A Family" video ( National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections)
- November 2: AARP’s Create The Good Anti-Hunger Initiative (AARP)
- October 25: More grandparents in U.S. raising grandchildren (Newsday)
- September 13: Grandparents increasingly fill need as caregivers (The Washington Post)
- September 13: Since the Start of the Great Recession, More Children Raised by Grandparents (Pew Research Center)
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Past Updates
- August 10: Military Leave Extended to Children, Grandparents (Illinois AP News)
- August 10: Denied a Helping Hand Cares for grandkid, but HRA aid nixed (NY Daily News.com)
- August 10: Grandparent support network comes to Oak Park (Wednesday Journal Online)
- August 10: Odetta Todd, on being awarded $19,000 by a federal grand jury after claiming Luzerne County Children and Youth Services improperly denied her foster care payments for caring for her sister's children (WILK 103.1)
- August 10: Volunteers stuff 400 backpacks with school supplies for Grandparents Raising Grandchildren (NewsOK)
- August 10: Nearly 11,500 grandparents in Monroe County raise their grandchildren (News 10 WHEC)
- August 10: And What is it that We have Been Saying? (Motherhooddeleted.blogspot.com)
- August 10: Woman gets $219,000 in Child Case (The Times Leader)
- August 10: Baylor Students learn about new models for Orphan Care (Associated Baptist Press)
- July 27: Today's Women/Why are grandparents taking care of Kids? (WNYT.com)
- July 27: Recognition for informal Kinship care with Kinship Navigator Programs (Children's Bureau Express)
- July 27: Video chat gets grandmother-friendly with a new how-to user guide (The Independent)
- July 7: Grandmother Crusades for Shaken Babies (Journal News)
- July 7: Kinship care and Concurrent Custody (The Kinship Circle)
- June 30: SC rejects grandparents plea for minor chuild custody (Press Trust of India)
- June 29: What are grandparents rights, and how do you obtain them fast? (CaringGrandparents.com)
- June 29: Grannies with Babies: In New York City & in Africa, they're raising a new generation (NYDailyNews.com)
- June 11: Support Group training Manual for Kinship Caregivers (Governer's Advisory Council on Aging, State of Arizona)
- May 24: Grandparents as Caregivers: Aid is Available (New York Local News)
- May 14: Grandparents Raising Kids: B'klyn is '#1' (Brooklyn Daily Eagle)
- May 13: Repeating History Brings Progess (Huffington Post)
- May 13: Landmark Ruling puts Real Value on Grandparents (Journal Live.co.uk)
- May 11: Children raised by relatives face greater health risk: study (MJN e-news)
- May 7: 300,000 NY Kids Have Their Grandparents to Thank on Mother’s Day (Public News service)
- May 5: New Director's Column
- April 19: New Fact sheets available on Our Legal Information page!
- April 19: Kinship Care When Parents are Incarcerated: What we Know, What we can Do The Annie E. Casey Foundation
- April 19: Monroe County Family Court Rules Against DHS, says child belongs with grandmother not in foster care Syracuse Examiner
- April 19: Grandparents Can Help Recognize Autism in Children US News Health
- April 19: Demographer: Baby Boomers, grandparents 'a major economic force' Baby Boomer Examiner
- April 19: Placement Stability in Kinship Care Informaworld
- April 6: Kinship Care Missing from Survey American Indian Adoptees
- March 25: Adoption Tax Credit Extended
- March 17: Grandma's a great caregiver, but she may be making her grandkids overweight: Deseret News
- March 17: RAPP Dutchess County Winter Newsletter
- February 23: Grandparents struggle to raise grandkids Courier Life
- February 23: Cangrands announces 9th annual conference
- February 1: A Determined Quest to Bring Adoptive Ties to Foster Teenagers: The New York Times
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