Statement from Children’s Aid and Family Services: Children’s Aid and Family Services envisions a world where every person, of any color, origin, ability or faith, can reach their fullest potential. To achieve that goal, every person deserves to live free from fear, unimpeded by discrimination and … [Read more...]

Foster care and adoption in the age of COVID-19 As a parent—or aspiring parent—you’re already dealing with uncertainty every day. The last thing you needed was to have caseworkers become more difficult to reach or to have the routines you’ve worked so hard to establish unravel as schools close … [Read more...]

September is Kinship Care Month, an important occasion for everyone to recognize and celebrate caregiving families who have stepped forward to provide the best opportunity for children to maintain family relationships and a sense of community and cultural heritage. Check out CWLA's two-volume … [Read more...]

The Rise of the Grandfamily A D.C. housing development serves as a refuge for grandparents raising young children. Is it a model for the rest of the country? It’s a few days after Christmas, and Akirah Carter is sitting in her living room, still wearing her Santa-and-reindeer-patterned pajamas and … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway CT: Grandparents raising grandchildren face financial hardship Middletown Press - January 18, 2019 For decades, grandparents have taken on the role of parent when needed - some for a second, third or fourth time. Many, like Melton, are thrust into the … [Read more...]