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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...]

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 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 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...]

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' 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...]

Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) Information for 2021: Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for approximately 70 million Americans will increase 1.3 percent in 2021. The 1.3 percent cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) will begin with benefits payable to more than 64 million … [Read more...]

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...]