Showing posts with label grandparents raising grandchildren. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grandparents raising grandchildren. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Kinship care: the challenges and opportunities




by Jan Wagner

I had the opportunity to chat with Cate Newbank, executive director of FACES of Virginia, as she was on her way to a briefing about kinship on Capitol Hill. We talked of kinship issues and the very wide gap in this country between licensed foster kinship families and informal or unlicensed kinship families, and she gave me a link to an organization called the National Committee of Grandparents for Children's Rights.