Kinship Care

LaShawnDa Pittman spent years studying the lives of dozens of grandmothers in the Chicago area for her book, Grandmothering While Black.  “Despite managing the simultaneity of love and coercion,” she writes, “the Black grandmothers in this study demonstrated their love for their grandchildren in their willingness to provide care, as an extension of parenting and sometimes in place of it.” 

On an all-headlines edition of The Imprint Weekly Podcast, Imprint reporter Sara Tiano joins us to discuss her new series on an Oklahoma child welfare worker, also a licensed foster parent, who is losing a fight to adopt her two nephews in Minnesota. The

Following new federal rules on kinship care, a group of advocates have developed a model standard for approving relatives.

The Biden administration announced a mix of final and proposed rules on child welfare policy today that cover the placement of foster youth with relatives, legal representation for parents and children involved with the system, and the placement of LGBTQ youth in foster care. 

A group of child welfare leaders are developing new recommended standards for licensing and approving kinship caregivers.

A new bill in Arizona would prioritize placing foster youth with kin and strengthen the rights afforded to youth in foster care. 

The clearinghouse that approves foster care prevention services has okayed four new programs, including the second kinship support model. 

This year, The Imprint covered the prioritization of kinship care from Washington state to Washington, D.C.

Although Washington, D.C.'s child welfare agency director says they don't take children out of their homes, that's not always true.