Press release announcing new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation that identifies efforts by states, DC, and Puerto Rico to promote kinship care and support kinship caregivers. It highlights progress made at reducing barriers to foster care licensing, long-standing inequities in financial assistance for kinship caregivers and new opportunities to address their needs.

The survey’s data, collected in 2022 by Child Trends, and analysis will be shared in a series of six briefs addressing aspects of kinship care policy.

Article in Spring 2015, Adopt Talk.  

Article in January/February 2015, Fostering Families Today

Contains a chapter on LEGACY, the nation's first affordable housing law for grandparents and other relatives raising children. The chapter also covers other housing issues faced by grandfamilies. See pages 114-117. (2012).

This brief provides kinship practice examples from across the country, organized by seven main topics, to help jurisdictions change policy and practice to promote kin placement and permanency, and successfully implement a kin-first culture shift.