Valuing and Supporting Kin Caregivers: A Training for Child Welfare Agencies
April 15, 2025 from 2:00 - 4:00 PM ET
The “Valuing and Supporting Kin Caregivers” training is designed to be flexible and tailorable to your agency’s needs.
Five Actions for Supporting Students and Caregivers in Kinship/Grandfamilies: A Toolkit for K-12 School Professionals and Kinship Service Providers
January 30, 2025
View this webinar for the rollout of a new practical toolkit designed to help K-12 education professionals and kinship service providers around the country. The Grandfamilies & Kinship Support Network’s “Five Actions for Supporting Students and Caregivers in Kinship/Grandfamilies” is designed to do just that – provide you with five concrete sets of actions that you take in your community to reach out and serve grandparents and other kin caregivers and the students they raise more meaningfully and inclusively. During this webinar, access tools, learn tips, and hear from education stakeholders who helped create this practical resource – it complements the Generations United 2024 State of Grandfamilies & Kinship Care Report, “Pathways to Success.” Log off with actionable tips to help students and kin caregivers that you can implement in your community.
Presenters:
- Ana Beltran, Director, Grandfamilies & Kinship Support Network, Generations United
- Jamarl Clark, Assistant Director, National Center on Grandfamilies, Generations United
- Victoria Gray, Generations United GRAND Voice & Executive Director, Grey Nickel, Arizona
- Rainie Jueschke, CFRE, Executive Director, ISDD, Georgia
- Emily Peeler, Senior Attorney, ABA Center on Children and the Law
- Laurie Tapozada, Generations United GRAND Voice & Kinship Development Consultant, The Village for Rhode Island Foster and Adoptive Families
- Angela Tobin, Founder/Director, Kinship Caregivers Connect, Ohio
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Call for Exemplary Kinship/
Grandfamilies Practices Deadline to apply is Tuesday, April 22, 2025
This new request for exemplary kinship/grandfamilies applications welcomes the submission of practices that have anecdotal or empirical evidence of success.
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TANF and Kinship/
Grandfamilies Join us to explore newly compiled state data on TANF child-only grants, compiled by our partners at Child Trends, along with strategies and policies that states and tribes use to improve kinship/grandfamilies' access to this important support.
