General Kinship Publications

Generations United fact sheet summarizing research showing that  children thrive in grandfamilies and do even better when well supported by services (2023). 

Child Welfare Information Gateway Podcast episodes focused on supporting kinship caregivers. Each highlights a state or tribe but is broadly applicable:

Supporting Kinship Caregivers, Part 1 (2017) (California)

Supporting Kinship Caregivers, Part 2  (2017) (Florida)

Advances in Supporting Kinship Caregivers, Part 1 (2022) (Rhode Island)

Advances in Supporting Kinship Caregivers, Part 2 (2022) (Washington)

Advances in Supporting Kinship Caregivers, Part 3 (2022) (Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe)

Advances in Supporting Kinship Caregivers, Part 4 (2022) (Nevada)

Advances in Supporting Kinship Caregivers, Part 5 (2022) (New Mexico)

Child Welfare Information Gateway bulletin designed to help child welfare professionals promote kinship care by providing kinship caregivers with information, referral, and support services to ensure the safety, permanency, and well-being of children in their care. Information about trends in kinship care, caseworker and caregiver training, and examples of successful State and local kinship care programs are included.

National Foster Care Month: It’s All Relative: Supporting Kinship Connections. Website with free tools and resources that focus on supporting resource families, which include foster parents, foster-to-adopt families, relative/kinship caregivers, and legal guardians.

On November 16, 2021, the Advisory Council to Support Grandparents Raising Grandchildren delivered its initial report to Congress. It includes a comprehensive review of the joys, challenges, gaps, and unmet needs and 22 recommendations for how the federal government, states, tribes, territories, and communities—in partnership with the private sector—can better support kin and grandparent caregivers.