Kin-Specific Licensing: Progress So Far
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Past Events
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Exemplary Kinship Programs in Action
Meet some of the first programs that have been deemed exemplary by the Network.
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Bridging Systems for Kinship Families Tribal Opportunity
Deadline to apply: Monday, March 18, 2024, at 11:59 PM PT
This is a unique opportunity for a tribe or tribal organization to apply to work with the nation’s leading experts on relative caregiver/kinship families.
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Leveraging Data to Seek Funding, Understand Kinship/
Grandfamilies, and Inform Practice The Grandfamilies & Kinship Support Network hosted a webinar on February 13, 2024 with researchers from Child Trends which provided an overview of how existing data sources can be used and combined in innovative and creative ways to provide meaningful information about kinship/ grandfamilies.
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Bridging Systems for Kinship Families
Applications Due by January 30, 2024
The Grandfamilies & Kinship Support Network is thrilled to roll out a unique opportunity to work with the nation’s leading experts on kinship families, all free of charge.
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Unaccompanied Immigrant Children in Kinship Families
The Grandfamilies & Kinship Support Network hosted a webinar on January 18, 2024 with presenters Emily Smith Goering and Iris Lopez to discuss Unaccompanied Immigrant Children in Kinship Families. Please listen to the webinar recording to learn more!
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HUD Funding to Develop Housing for Grandfamilies
The Grandfamilies & Kinship Support Network hosted a webinar with representatives from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to discuss a funding opportunity for grandfamilies' housing.
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Support Groups: Recruiting, Retention, and Everything in Between
The Grandfamilies & Kinship Support Network hosted a webinar on November 16, 2023 with presenters Kathy Kinsner and Dawn Davenport to describe the advantages of support groups and identify topics that might be included during group meetings.
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Kin-Specific Foster Home Licensure: Overview of New Federal Rule & Release of Recommended Standards
On September 28, 2023, the U.S. Administration for Children and Families issued a final rule that explicitly gives all Title IV-E child welfare agencies the option to use kin-specific foster care licensing standards and encourages them to limit those standards to federal safety requirements.
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Improving Your Results in Kin-Finding and Placement
The Grandfamilies & Kinship Support Network hosted a webinar on September 12, 2023 with presenter Marina Nitze for a preview and initial roll-out of the Kin-Finding Toolkit
