General Kinship Publications

Guide created by Youth Law Center and Juvenile Law Center intended to be a practical tool that can be used by attorneys and advocates to ensure that youth are in living settings where they can be connected with family, the community, and a support system.

Fact sheet created by the Congressional Research Service presenting data about kinship care and families in the U.S.

Tipsheet sharing advice about how caregivers can talk to children about their parents' absence.

Child Trends blog describing challenges faced by kinship caregivers and their children and offers suggestions for how systems can work together to provide a safety net. When systems work together to provide supports, it helps kinship caregivers provide safe, stable, and loving homes to the children in their care.

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.