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. 

Children Thrive in Grandfamilies Fact Sheet, a resource updated by Generations United, provides key facts about how children do in the care of relatives and a list of research articles to support the facts. 2023. 

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. 

Recommended foster caregiver licensing standards created by Child Welfare Playbook, ABA Center on Children and the Law, Generations United, and Think of Us, with input from agency staff, licensing workers, subject matter experts, foster caregivers, and former foster youth. The document includes a list of recommended standards, the reasonining for certain standards, tools for implementing the standards, background check guidance, and form templates.

For the full set of implementation tools, view the foster caregiver licensing standards sample forms page.