The Grandfamilies State Law and Policy Resource Center is a collaboration between Casey Family Programs, the American Bar Association’s Center on Children and the Law and Generations United.

Casey Family Programs is the largest national foundation whose sole mission is to provide and - improve and ultimately prevent the need for - foster care. The foundation draws on over 40 years of experience and expert research and analysis to improve the lives of children and youth in foster care in two important ways: by providing direct services and support to foster families, and by promoting improvements in child welfare practice and policy. The Seattle-based foundation was established in 1966 by UPS founder Jim Casey, and has a current endowment of $2.5 billion.

The ABA Center on Children and the Law (The Center), a program of the ABA Young Lawyers Division, aims to improve children's lives through advances in law, justice, knowledge, practice and public policy. The ABA Center’s areas of expertise include child abuse and neglect, child welfare and protective services system enhancement, relative care, foster care, family preservation, termination of parental rights, parental substance abuse, adolescent health, and other child protective legal issues. The ABA Fund for Justice and Education (“Fund for Justice”) was created to support ABA programs such as programs and services that advocate for children and family rights.

Generations United (GU) is the country’s only not for profit membership organization promoting intergenerational public policies, programs, and strategies. GU has been at the forefront of national efforts to support grandfamilies, convening three national expert symposiums on the issues impacting these families which have provided the blueprints for GU and other organizations to support grandfamilies. Over the years, GU and its National Center on Grandparents and Other Relatives Raising Children has been guided by its grandparent advisory group and has collaborated to implement the agendas by developing and promoting programs and policies through trainings, federal and state legislative testimony and briefings, publications, and technical assistance.

This collaboration was formed to create a national Grandfamilies State Law and Policy Resource Center (The Resource Center). The Resource Center serves as a national legal resource created to educate individuals about state laws, legislation and policy in support of grandfamilies and to assist interested state legislators, advocates, caregivers, attorneys, and other policymakers in exploring policy options to support relatives and the children in their care both within and outside the child welfare system. Additionally, the ABA and Generations United staff are available to provide technical assistance and training to state policymakers and advocates or other interested parties.