RICHMOND — Enjoying a rare moment of leisure, Lennie Dillard-Brown looked fondly at her grandson Anthony Cook, the child she has raised since the age of 18 months, as the 7-year-old shot baskets last ...

Nearly 3 million grandparents across the country are caring for their children’s children, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Often they have no formal custody arrangement, no legal guardianship and ...

Kinship Partners plans to expand its Lunch Buddies, a school-based mentoring program, to more schools in the Brainerd area. Lunch Buddies has been set up in schools in Staples, Motley, Pequot Lakes ...

BRAINERD — Beginning this summer, Kinship Partners, a local youth mentoring organization, is moving programming to the Brainerd Family YMCA. “This is a big transition for our programs and staff,” said ...

The Kinship Care Program run by the Child Care Coordinating Council of the North Country could cease to be should the state budget pass as now proposed. "Depending on what kind of money we get, I ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- It's a startling number -- about 22% of San Francisco's unhoused population were once in the foster care system, according to a city report. That's what makes the work of 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 ...

With January being National Mentoring Month, Kinship of Martin County is full throttle into a new year of assisting local ...

About 36,000 New Mexico children were raised by their grandparents or other next-of-kin in 2023. (Photo courtesy of New Mexico Aging Services) Kinship caregivers in approximately half a dozen counties ...

AUSTIN - Lisa and Ashley Mitchell faced an uncertain future when the grandmother raising them died. Thrust into the foster care system, they could have bounced like many children from placement to ...