Updates for March

 

Please visit our Kinship Events Page for current Kinship activities.

 

• OTDA letter on policy regarding Non Parent Grant and Kinship Caregivers

• 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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