The 2023 State of Grandfamilies Report - Building Resilience: Supporting Grandfamilies' Mental Health and Wellness aims to bring attention to the mental health and emotional wellness of grandfamilies, shed light on their resilience and challenges they face, and provide innovative solutions and resources to better support them. 

The report, “Pathways to Success: K-12 Education Support for Kinship and Grandfamilies,” discusses how about 2.5 million children in grandfamilies and kinship families are impacted by educational challenges and actionable recommendations to improve their school support and services. 

The report, "The Costs of Caregiving: Why Supporting Grandfamilies & Kinship Care is Good for Children and Our Nation’s Economy" highlights the critical role these caregivers play in supporting children, families, and our nation’s child welfare system, as well as the challenges they face in doing so. 2025

- See this document for an explanation of how the calculation of kinship caregivers’ unrecognized support to child welfare system was determined. 

Federal Fiscal Year 2025 Title IV-B, Subpart 2 Funding Available to Develop and Enhance or to Evaluate Kinship Navigator Programs

• Program Instruction
• Indian Tribes/Tribal Organizations Eligible to Apply for Fiscal Year 2025
• Fiscal Year 2025 Title IV-B, Subpart 2 Kinship Navigator Funding Request

Title IV-B of the Social Security Act is a small but important federal funding source for child welfare programs to keep families together.