National Resource Center for Diligent Recruitment

The National Resource Center for Diligent Recruitment, NRCDR website closed on September 29, 2017. The NRCDR website is not being maintained but resources on diligent recruitment remain available.

The Grandparent’s and Other Relative Caregiver’s Guide to Raising Children with Disabilities from the Children’s Defense Fund

Children’s Defense Fund Guide to Resources for Kinship Families

Kinship webpage from Child Welfare Information Gateway

Compilation of Kinship Resources

Kinship Care Options brochure from Virginia Department of Social Services

Kinship care is a way for children to stay connected to family when they have been voluntarily or involuntarily removed from the care of their parents. Removal may become necessary due to a parent’s illness, incarceration, lack of housing, insufficient income, abuse or neglect. Regardless of the reason for kinship care,most children fare better when connections to family and loved ones are maintained.

Grandfamilies.org

Grandfamilies.org, a collaboration of Generations United, the American Bar Association Center for Children and the Law, and Casey Family Programs.

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  Grandfamilies

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  Generations United

Kinship Care: Rights and Responsibilities

In this fact sheet from FFF, Virginia-specific information about rights and responsibilities for families providing informal and formal kinship care.

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  Kinship Rights and Responsibilities Fact Sheet

Kinship Families: Did You Know?

• The child you care for can get educational services.
• You should help make important educational decisions about the child you care for
• You should be informed when decisions are to be made.
• Your child’s school should be helping solve behavior problems.
• School records from previous schools should be sent to a new school.