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Identifying and Engaging Untapped Partners to Support Kinship/Grandfamilies

This tip sheet provides strategies for building a repertoire of community resources and identifying, engaging, navigating, and maintaining new community connections that will sustain families over time. Use this as a quick reference tool to identify additional community partners that may not immediately come to mind when providing services to kinship families.

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Getting the Child You Love the Educational Support They Need

A Network Monthly Resource: August 2023 As a grandparent, other relative, or family friend raising a child whose parents are unable to do so, your…

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Finding Program Funding

Successful fundraising includes researching who's funding what, getting others excited about your organization's mission, building relationships over time, and (yep!) following directions. In this resource, you'll find tips on how to get started.

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Navigating the Relationship with Your Adult Child

If you’re a grandparent raising a grandchild, you already have a relationship with a parent of the child–one that can be tough to navigate.

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Caring for a Child Affected by Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)

This resource is designed to provide information about how drinking alcohol during pregnancy can affect children. It also provides kin caregivers with tips for raising children who were exposed to alcohol before birth.

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Connecting with Families in Black and Indigenous Communities

Kin/grandfamily caregivers’ ideas about their roles in protecting and providing for the children in their care depend on their families’ values and cultures.

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The Grandparents’ Guide: What’s New? What’s the Same?

What's new and what's the same when it comes to caring for infants and toddlers?

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Becoming a Grandfamily: First Steps

Assuming the care of a grandchild or other young relative can feel overwhelming. Here are the first steps to think about and where to go for help.

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Making a Difference

This month, we’re spotlighting two kinship programs – one run by an aging agency in Ohio and one led by a child welfare agency in Washington – that make a difference in their communities

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Preparing Kinship/Grandfamilies to Respond to Medicaid and CHIP Changes

Approximately 15 million people may lose their Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) coverage in the coming months, including 6.8 million people who are…