Kinship Policy Summaries

Generations United resource explaining the impact of HR 9076- Supporting America's Children and Families Act on kinship families. This bill was signed into law at the start of 2025, and makes updates to the Title IV-B program, including increasing funding; requiring states to consult with people with lived experience, including kinship caregivers and youth; clarifying that Title IV-B funds can be used for kinship families and peer-to-peer support programs, and changing how kinship navigator programs are funded.

A collective advocacy tool created by Generations United, the ABA Center on Children and the Law, and Think of Us to guide our future work to support kinship families. The action agenda identifies and prioritizes key policy opportunities to support kinship families. It was created through a convening of national advocates, featuring professionals with diverse perspectives and individuals with lived experience in grandfamilies/kinship families, and incorporates feedback from the broader advocacy community, grandfamilies services providers, and focus groups with kinship caregivers from varied backgrounds.

National Center for Youth Law 50-state permanency policy analysis. This brief explores the diversity of state policies and practices aimed at supporting teens’ need for a permanent connection to a family. Recommendations are aimed at helping child welfare agencies use a variety of strategies to achieve permanency for teens, with an emphasis on the use of kinship families.

An overview of current policy reforms at the federal and state levels that impact the lives of caregiving grandparents and their grandchildren. This important article was published in GrandFamilies: The Contemporary Journal of Research, Practice and Policy  (2017).