Kinship Caregivers in D.C. Say Child Welfare Agency Owes Foster Payments Three years ago, a Washington, D.C., woman received a distressed call with an urgent request: Her sister was being admitted to a psychiatric hospital and needed help caring for her then-5-year-old daughter. Could she take … [Read more...]
Legal and Financial Differences Between Adoption and Kinship Legal Guardianship (KLG)
Legal and Financial Differences Between Adoption and Kinship Legal Guardianship (KLG) The New Jersey Department of Children and Families (DCF) Division of Child Protection and Permanency (CP&P) strives to support all youth in care to achieve legal permanency through reunification, adoption, … [Read more...]
Big shift in NJ foster care — 70% of kids placed with ‘kin’
Big shift in NJ foster care — 70% of kids placed with 'kin' When kids in New Jersey need to be taken from their homes due to unfortunate circumstances such as abuse and neglect, their next stop isn't what most people may think of as a traditional foster home. There's been a big push in the … [Read more...]
BLOG: Kinship Care and New Jersey’s Revised Kinship Legal Guardianship Act
BLOG: Kinship Care and New Jersey’s Revised Kinship Legal Guardianship Act Kinship care – placing children with relatives rather than non-relative foster parents – is associated with significant benefits for children and youth, including improved mental and behavioral health. Specifically, … [Read more...]
Bill reintroduced in U.S. House to support grandparents raising grandchildren
Bill reintroduced in U.S. House to support grandparents raising grandchildren WASHINGTON, D.C. (WWLP) – U.S. House of Representatives Rules Committee Chairman James P. McGovern (MA-02) and Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) reintroduced the Grandfamily Housing Act, a bill to create a new, … [Read more...]
Family Matters: Multigenerational living is on the rise and here to stay
Family Matters: Multigenerational living is on the rise and here to stay. Our results are clear: multigenerational living is indeed on the rise in 2021, with more than 1 in 4 Americans (26%) living in a household with 3 or more generations. Given our finding in 2011 that 7 percent of Americans … [Read more...]
Coronavirus Relief Bill Includes $10 Million for Kinship Care Center
Coronavirus Relief Bill Includes $10 Million for Kinship Care Center All but unnoticed in news coverage of the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package President Joe Biden signed on Thursday is $10 million to start up a technical assistance center to help relative caregivers who step up to fill … [Read more...]
Helping grandfamilies: Hassan, Collins say a bill is needed for ‘kinship caregivers’
Helping grandfamilies: Hassan, Collins say a bill is needed for 'kinship caregivers' WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Maggie Hassan, D-NH, and Susan Collins, R-Maine, announced they have reintroduced the Help Grandfamilies Prevent Child Abuse Act to support kinship caregivers. These caregivers are … [Read more...]
NJ Kinship Connections – Spring 2021
Tax Benefits for Grandparents
Grandparents who are raising their grandchildren may not be aware of the many tax benefits they may be able to claim. Here is a brief FAQ about what’s at stake. … [Read more...]
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