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.

This publication contains articles on resources for grandparents raising the children of the opioid epidemic, working with immigrant kinship caregivers and more. CLP is a free online resource with practical articles tied to the ABA Center on Children and the Law's primary areas of work and may be accessed at www.childlawpractice.org. To sign up for CLP Alerts, send an email to clptoday@americanbar.org.