Supporting America’s Children and Families Act: Opportunities for Tribes delivering kinship support services December 11, 2025

In keeping with our practice, the webinar will be one hour, followed immediately by an open Q&A session that will last for half an hour.

The purpose of this webinar is to provide information about new resources afforded under the Supporting America’s Children and Families Act, so that Tribes that operate kinship support service programs, including kinship navigation programs, can prepare to take advantage of them. 

This new law reauthorizes and updates Title IV-B of the Social Security Act, a critical child welfare law that provides funding to Tribes, states, and territories, to create and operate coordinated child and family services programs. While administered by child welfare agencies, Title IV-B funds can be used for services to support and strengthen families – including kinship families – both inside and outside the child welfare system. The new law explicitly includes kinship families and clarifies that Title IV-B funds can be used for peer-to-peer support programs. It also provides for competitive grants for kinship navigator programs, including Tribal kinship navigator programs, and provides funding to support the evaluation of kinship navigator programs and prevention services. Our presenter for this webinar is Network Subject Matter Expert Angelique Day, PhD, MSW.