Resources for Kinship Service Providers

Welcome to our reference materials page! Here you will find articles, papers, and publications relating to kinship care. Below are links to articles that are on our site, as well as links to articles on other websites. Please feel free to browse our selection of resources!

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Spotlight on Fostering Connections Act (Children's Bureau Express)

This month, CBX spotlights the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008. Articles focus on Family Connection grants, implications for kin, and resources for implementing the Act.

 

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National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections

The National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections (NRCPFC) focuses on increasing the capacity and resources of State, Tribal, and other publicly supported child welfare agencies to promote family-centered practices that contribute to the safety, permanency, and well-being of children while meeting the needs of their families. The NRCPFC helps States and Tribes to implement strategies to expand knowledge, increase competencies, and change attitudes of child welfare professionals at all levels, with the goal of infusing family-centered principles and practices in their work with children, youth and families who enter the child welfare system.

 

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http://www.nysmandatedreporter.org/

This is a "new" online training course for mandated reporters. This course meets the New York State Education Department mandatory requirements for Training in Child Abuse Identification and Reporting. At the end, participants will receive a certificate for their records and to submit to the state for recertification requirements.

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Articles for Kinship Care Providers

* Kinship Care Leaves Some Kids Struggling: Presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting, Vancouver, May 2, 2010 

* Grandparent DNA testing to create Kinship: DNA Paternity Testing

* Kinship Care When Parents are Incarcerated: What we Know, What we can Do The Annie E. Casey Foundation

* Kinship Resource Page through the NYS Citizen's Coalition for Children

* Schuyler County Children's Policy Agenda E Newsletter Articles

* NRCFCPPP Kinship Webpage Updated and Expanded
The National Resource Center for Family-Centered Practice and Permanency Planning (NRCFCPPP) has updated the information on our kinship webpage. In order to make information more easily accessible, we have re-organized the information to include an overview of kinship care, legislative policy, training, research on the impact of kinship care on children, tools and resources, and tools used by different states. We have also expanded the web links section and posted our archived webcast, Supporting Kinship Families: What State Policymakers Can Do.

* Children's Defense Fund: "Help Children Being Raised by Grandparents and Other Relatives and their Relative Caregiversby Expanding and Establishing Kinship Navigator Programs"

  Journal of Intergenerational Relationships
Special Double Issue: Volume 7, Issue 2-3, 2009 Grandparents and Other Relatives as Parents Special Issue: Volume 7, Issue 2-3, 2009
Issue Editors: Catherine J. Tompkins, George Mason University, USA
                          Sacramento Pinazo-Hernandis, University of Valencia, Spain
                          Melinda Perez-Porter, The Brookdale Foundation, New York, USA
                          Rolanda T. Pyle, The Brookdale Foundation, New York, USA

Special Issue Rate: US$45         The number of grandparent-headed households has been growing steadily since the early seventies, and an even larger increase has been experienced by the number of children reared by their grandparents throughout the nineties. Consequently, over the past decade, there has been a growing body of research devoted to the study of grandparents raising grandchildren in the world.

        In this special double issue of the Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, Grandparents and Other Relatives as Parents, authors cite the scientific literature that identifies teen pregnancy, parents' incarceration, AIDS, substance abuse, child abuse, abandonment and/or neglect, and death or mental illness of the parents as the main causes of grandparent caregiving.

        With the intention of further developing this significant body of research, this special issue provides a wide panorama of the most relevant issues in the field of custodial grandparenting. Dedication
In Loving Memory of Janet Sainer
Melinda Perez-Porter; Rolanda T. Pyle  

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INTRODUCTION


SCHOLARSHIP

FROM THE FIELD/PROGRAM FILES

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Helpful Reports/Documents:

Census 2000 Grandparents and Children

Citizen Review Panels: yearly report on child welfare with recommendations, http://www.citizenreviewpanelsny.org/

Kinship Care in New York: A Five Year Framework for Action (2008)

Enabling Kincaregivers to Raise Children (2005)

2004 Kinship Report

"Help Relatives Care for Kids" by Gerard Wallace: Op Ed poublished by the Democrat and Chronicle August 4, 2008

The Brookdale Relatives As Parents Program 2008-2009 Funding Alert for Local Agencies

Findings from the 2007 Casey Kinship Foster Care Policy Survey

Families in Society Article: Intergenerational and Interconnected: Mental Health and Well-being in Grandparent Caregiver Families

The Future of Children: PreventingChild Maltreatment resource guides

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KINSHIP LAW COURSE FOR ATTORNEYS - CLE Credit for Attorneys

 3 Credit Attorney Training online: Kinship Care: Rights, Authority, Assistance and Resources

This three-hour course will cover kinship caregiver legal issues offering extensive practical information about legal issues facing grandparents and relatives raising children. Topics discussed include: grandparents rights, distinctions between legal custody & guardianship, third party custody disputes, becoming a kinship foster parent, standby guardianship, and recent legal developments. Discussion on Informal Care includes: parental delegations, school enrollment, and medical decisions. Course also offers information on eligibility for public assistance, Social Security and other assistance programs. CLE credit: 3.0 Professional Practice.   Presenters:  Susan Antos, Empire Justice Center, Tanya Briendel, PACE Women’s Justice Center, and Gerard Wallace, NYS Kinship Navigator.  Date of original presentation: 05/14/08, http://onlineresources.wnylc.com/Kinship

Cost: $60.00 for non profit organizations, $90.00 for private attorneys.

For more information and to register, please visit this website.

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New York Life Foundation Issues Grant RFP

The New York Life Foundation has released a Request for Proposals for its 2009 Awards Program for organizations serving youth in New York City and Westchester. This year’s focus is on Educational Enhancement. The Foundation will award six $25,000 grants - one in each of New York City’s five boroughs and one in Westchester County - to nonprofit organizations with an existing program that supports the Foundation’s Educational Enhancement category as part of its Nurturing the Children initiative. It is open to organizations with operating budgets of $5 million or less. Applications will be reviewed and awarded on a competitive basis. Educational Enhancement programs should prepare young people for higher education or the workplace and equip them to be responsible citizens. Activities should: enrich academic performance and educational commitment; provide a foundation in basic skills, such as reading, writing, mathematics, science and communication; and enhance thinking skills, such as decision-making, problem-solving and reasoning. We are particularly interested in programs serving disadvantaged youth, including those who are in foster care or aging out of foster care, are homeless, or are neither in school nor working. Complete guidelines for the 2009 Awards Program are available at the Foundation’s Web site, www.newyorklifefoundation.org/award