Education Resources

A toolkit for K-12 school professionals and kinship service providers to better support students and caregivers in kinship/grandfamilies. The toolkit revolves around five actions, which each include specific steps and embedded tools to help students and their caregivers thrive in K-12 settings. This toolkit is designed to accompany Generations United’s 2024 State of Grandfamilies and Kinship Care Report, Pathways to Success: K-12 Education Support for Kinship and Grandfamilies.

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. 

As the children in their care enter their senior year of high school, kin/grandfamily caregivers will be thinking about what comes next, including, potentially, higher education and how to pay for it. Here’s what they need to know

ChildTrends brief summarizing the main findings of a study based in North Carolina that reinforced that kinship care settings support the academic well-being of children who do not live with at least one birth or adoptive parent.

This resource discusses the role of kin caregivers in education including if the child is in child welfare custody or not in custody.,