Valuing and Supporting Kin Caregivers: A Training for Child Welfare Agencies
April 15, 2024 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.
One of the greatest challenges for kinship families is that they often lack full legal rights and responsibilities for the children in their care. Legal services can be costly, inaccessible, and unknown by kin caregivers. Without legal assistance and guidance, many kin caregivers cannot access the services and supports they need to meet a child’s basic needs.
Fortunately, there are a number of legal models that are being used successfully by organizations around the country to provide critical legal services to kinship/grandfamilies. The Grandfamilies & Kinship Support Network’s Subject Matter Experts from the American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law helped identify legal models and strategies that are being used to successfully help kinship families across the country. They will share what they learned and be joined by several organizations that are helping these families overcome their challenges with accessing legal services and obtaining guardianship, power of attorney, or other legal relationships to children in their care.
Learn replicable ideas and strategies to provide supportive legal assistance to kinship families in your community through legal education and resources, brief legal services, and legal representation.
Presenters:
- Heidi Redlich Epstein, Associate Director, American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law
- Steven Jessen-Howard, Legal Fellow & Staff Attorney, American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law
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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.
