March 21, 2023
The Grandfamilies & Kinship Support Network’s partner, the National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA), hosted a webinar on March 21, 2023, during which a panel discussion was framed with the relational worldview model, an Indigenous model that looks at well-being as a balance between the four quadrants—environment, mind, body, and spirit. Panelists discussed navigating changes in relationships with their relatives from their experience living in a grandfamily/kinship family. Panelists discussed things that helped bring them balance and what support they needed from those around them.
Child welfare and the Aging Network are two of the most critical systems serving kinship/grandfamilies. They often provide complementary, yet uncoordinated services, that could be…
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.
June 25-27, 2025
Now in its 23rd year, Generations United’s 2025 Intergenerational Conference, will be held in Louisville, KY, and will bring together hundreds of kinship professionals and…
