A new website and other needed upgraded technologies will be created and purchased by the Woodland Community College Foster & Kinship Care Education program due to a major grant awarded by the Yocha ...

Eight years ago, Linda Baker took her infant granddaughter, Journey, from her son and his wife because their drug use was making for an unsafe home. "They didn't fight me," the 56-year-old said. "I ...

Angels Foster Care has started Family & Friends Together (FFT), a new kinship care program that provides intensive, trauma-informed multigenerational support to kinship families caring for foster ...

We sit down with Lisa Grodskey a program operations manager and member of the Michigan Kinship Care Coalition. Kinship care is when a child is removed from their home but instead of entering the ...

September is National Kinship Care Month, and on Sept. 15, the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) hosted a kickoff event for the new Colorado Kinnected Kinship Navigator Program at the Adams ...

LIMA — When one family member is unable to care for a child, others are given the opportunity to step in. Allen County Commissioners gave a proclamation Thursday morning to name September as Kinship ...

Most have heard excerpts of a short story telling of a small boy picking up sea stars trapped on the beach as the tide receded and how he tossed them back toward water. When questioned by a passerby ...

Child welfare agencies in Maryland and throughout the U.S. have long recognized that children who enter the foster care system usually benefit from placement within their family of origin whenever ...

Recent legislation to expand the Kinship Guardianship Assistance Program, or KinGAP, introduced by state Sen. Tony Avella and Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi, benefits foster care providers by supporting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This article was originally published in Kentucky Lantern. For Barry Shrout, raising four granddaughters is a role he willingly ...