Healthcare

Grand Resource: Help for Grandfamilies Impacted by Opioids and Other Substance is a set of resources from Generations United that includes recommendations and resources on five topics identified by kinship caregivers as uniquely challenging for grandfamilies impacted by substance use.

Healthy Foster Care America (HFCA) is an initiative of the American Academy of Pediatrics and its partners to improve the health and well-being outcomes of children and teens in foster care.

This Children’s Bureau / Child Welfare Information Gateway Issue Brief provides a summary of Medicaid and other health-care coverage options for youth currently or formerly in the foster care system.

Using specific examples and language from the states with educational and health care consent laws, these practical publications are designed to give policymakers and advocates the tools they need to pursue similar legislation or amend their existing state laws (2014). 

Generations United, with the support of the CVS Caremark Charitable Trust, developed this guide to equip the caregivers, including those that provide full and part time care to relative children, with the national resources they need to help their children thrive, now and in the future (2013).