Kin Caregiver Service Needs
Conducting a community needs assessment can help you both discover and understand the needs of kin caregivers in your community, which are two critical steps to ensuring your new program has the greatest possible impact.
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Assessing Community Needs
This resource describes steps to conduct a community needs assessment and shares tips for planning one.
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Getting to Know Kin Caregivers & Involving Them in Program Development
This resource provides background information about kin caregivers and their families, describes program development, and explains how and why to involve kin caregivers in your program development process.
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Starting a Kin Caregiver Support Service: Learning Community Insights Overview
The Network and its parters at USAging worked together to hold a five-session learning community for Aging Network organizations.
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Family First Prevention Services and Programs – Reimbursement for Culturally Adapted Services and Programs for Native Children and Families
Historically, Title IV-E of the Social Security Act has provided entitlement funds for foster care, adoption assistance, and relative guardianship payments and grant funds for services for children aging out of foster care.
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New Mexico Commits to Universal Child Care
In November of 2025, New Mexico became the first state to offer free child care to residents, regardless of income. And there’s a special provision for grandparents who are raising their grandchildren.
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Understanding Changes to SNAP
Kinship families facing food insecurity may have questions about changes to SNAP benefits and requirements under HR-1, the comprehensive budget bill passed in 2025.
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Tech Use for Grandfamilies
Many of us who grew up with computers or have used them professionally for decades take our skills for granted, but a lack of computer literacy is a barrier for many older adults.
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Honoring and Supporting Grandfamilies & Kinship Families in Your Congregation
This short tip sheet provides information about the families and the challenges they face, and it presents ideas to help faith communities better serve these families.
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Kids, Kin ‘n Caregivers - Virginia
Kids, Kin ‘n Caregivers (KKNC) provides a wide range of services in coastal Virginia to grandparents, other relatives, and close family friends who are raising children whose parents are unable to do so.
