A 60-minute webinar highlighting the grandfamilies and kinship care provisions of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, some of the most significant being those providing additional federal funds for kinship navigator programs. Generations United staff are joined by experts from the Children’s Defense Fund and the American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law to provide an overview of new federal investments in kinship navigator programs, grandfamilies housing, and relevant child welfare programs that can help grandfamilies. 

Webinar Recording

Power Point Slides Only

Generations United's Brief Summary of the Kinship Provisions of the Consolidated Appropration Act of 2021

Generations United is operating the Grandfamilies and Kinship Support Network: A National Technical Assistance Center,* funded through a five-year cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Community Living (ACL).

Generations United shares practical information from the Internal Revenue Service about grandfamilies' ability to claim the 2021 Child Tax Credit

Provides an overview of housing issues faced by grandfamilies, existing federal laws that can help, housing specifically for grandfamilies, and recommended action areas and projects for creating additional affordable housing opportunities developed during Generations United's first national expert housing symposium specifically for grandfamilies (2005). 

Provides a comprehensive overview of the myriad of issues facing grandfamilies and shares recommendations from the second national expert symposium on grandparents and other relatives raising children from Generations United (2005)Local Organizations Honor SC Kinship Caregivers

Article by Lydia Royals at the Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina about the state's first “Kinship Care Day at the Capitol” in Columbia (2018).