Updates for July

 

Please visit our Kinship Events Page for current Kinship activities.

 

• 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)

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Past Updates

• 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: Iraq Vets: Benefits Change for Grandparents Raising Fallen Soldiers Children AARP

• April 19: Grandparents Can Help Recognize Autism in Children US News Health

• April 19: Idaho on Track for New 'Grand-Foster Parents' Law

• 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 9: Alabama House votes to let grandparents seek visitation rights

• February 1: A Determined Quest to Bring Adoptive Ties to Foster Teenagers: The New York Times

• December 10:CLASP announces the release of a new report, Extending Home Visiting Programs to Kinship Caregivers and Family, Friend, and Neighbor Caregivers: Opportunities, Challenges, and Implications. The report explores how home visiting programs are serving children in kinship care and in family, friend, and neighbor care, based on CLASP’s interviews with major national models of home visiting and other stakeholders. It also presents detailed considerations for implementing home visiting with these caregivers, including matters of curricula, staffing, and service referral, and discusses opportunities that result from serving these caregivers. It concludes with recommendations for states and the federal government.   The full report and executive summary are available at: http://www.clasp.org/admin/site/publications/files/homevisitingkinshipffn.pdf

 

 

 

 

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