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11/14/2019

New York Expands Eligibility for Kin Who Want to Foster Children

Rachel Nielsen

When caseworkers remove children from their homes and place them into foster care, it can be jarring and traumatic. A new law in New York aims to ease the transition by enabling a wider circle of family members and even non-relatives to become the kids’ foster parents.

12/6/2017

New York Expands Funding Access for Close Kin Who Become a Child’s Legal Guardian

Michael Fitzgerald

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed legislation late last month making it easier for close relatives and family friends to receive financial support for kinship guardianship agreements (KinGAP). Godparents, step-parents, the adoptive parents of half-siblings, neighbors and other kinds of kin will be eligible for the subsidy until the child turns 21.

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