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What Services do Kinship Caregivers Need?

• A safe place to come together
• Vouchers for diapers
• Legal services
• Place for seniors and children to live (lots of senior housing does not allow children)
• More awareness of kinship “problem”
• Computers for caregivers to utilize with children
• More education
• More voice in the system: not just called on when system determines a problem.

Kinship Care Federal Laws

Grandfamilies.org

Kinship Care arrangements fall into three categories:

1. Formal care, where a Child Welfare Agency has legal custody, and a child lives with relatives or fictive kin in a foster care arrangement.
2. Voluntary or informal care, where the Child Welfare Agency is involved, but does not have formal legal custody of the child.
3. Private care, placements made by a relative without Child Welfare involvement. These placements represent the largest number of kinship care arrangements.

Other Names for Kinship Care:

• Grandfamilies
• Second-time Parents
• Relatives as parents
• Kin care
• Kin Foster Care