February 25, 2025
It’s been almost a year since the publication of the Kin-Specific Foster Home Approval Standards and the first jurisdictions going live. View the webinar recording to hear from four jurisdictions about their progress so far, lessons learned, and advice for agencies going live next. Guest speakers included leaders from Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe, Maryland, Michigan, and Tennessee. The webinar also featured Network Subject Matter Experts Marina Nitze from the Child Welfare Playbook and Heidi Redlich Epstein from the American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law, who updated us on the overall progress being made to license kin caregivers across the country. There was a 30-minute Q&A session immediately after the webinar for those interested in a deeper dive on implementation strategies and how to overcome potential roadblocks.
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.
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.
June 25-27, 2025
Generations United’s 2025 Intergenerational Conference, will be held in Louisville, KY, and will include a full-day preconference intensive on kinship and grandfamilies on June 25th, along with a full conference track on the families and programs, policies, and practices that support them.
