The Grandfamilies & Kinship Support Network’s Resource Library is a centralized hub of resources for professionals who are serving and supporting grandfamilies and kinship families. It features resources created by the Network and its partners and subject matter experts, including fact sheets, tip sheets, webinars, practical toolkits, reports, videos, and research/data.
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This Kin-Finding Toolkit features promising practices that have been helping child welfare agencies across the country increase their kin placement rates. Every practice comes with the necessary real-world tools, such as sample policy language and forms. Take away new strategies and resources to adapt for your own system or organization.
This tip sheet provides strategies for building a repertoire of community resources and identifying, engaging, navigating, and maintaining new community connections that will sustain families over time. Use this as a quick reference tool to identify additional community partners that may not immediately come to mind when providing services to kinship families.
A Network Monthly Resource: August 2023 As a grandparent, other relative, or family friend raising a child whose parents are unable to do so, your…
Successful fundraising includes researching who's funding what, getting others excited about your organization's mission, building relationships over time, and (yep!) following directions. In this resource, you'll find tips on how to get started.
If you’re a grandparent raising a grandchild, you already have a relationship with a parent of the child–one that can be tough to navigate.
This resource is designed to provide information about how drinking alcohol during pregnancy can affect children. It also provides kin caregivers with tips for raising children who were exposed to alcohol before birth.
Kin/grandfamily caregivers’ ideas about their roles in protecting and providing for the children in their care depend on their families’ values and cultures.
What's new and what's the same when it comes to caring for infants and toddlers?
Assuming the care of a grandchild or other young relative can feel overwhelming. Here are the first steps to think about and where to go for help.
This month, we’re spotlighting two kinship programs – one run by an aging agency in Ohio and one led by a child welfare agency in Washington – that make a difference in their communities
