The Handbook describes the Prevention Services Clearinghouse’s:

1. procedures for identifying programs and services and associated research studies for review or re-review;
2. standards for assessing the design, execution, and findings of research studies and for rating programs and services; and
3. definitions of key terms.

Child Trends blog describing challenges faced by kinship caregivers and their children and offers suggestions for how systems can work together to provide a safety net. When systems work together to provide supports, it helps kinship caregivers provide safe, stable, and loving homes to the children in their care.

An important federal rule has changed to support kinship families in the foster care system. This brief resource from the Grandfamilies & Kinship Support Network outlines some of the most fundamental questions and answers about the change.

Information from the government agency that administers the National Family Caregiver Support Program. 

This report explores the complexity of households in which grandparents and grandchildren live together. It uses data from the 2010 Census, the American Community Survey (ACS), the Current Population Survey (CPS), and the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP).

• See updated data in their 2021 report.