Kinship Families
Kinship Families
Articles Directory
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Building a Grand Relationship Helps Keep Youth Drug Free
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25 | 36 |
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Cuidado Proveido Por Parientes |
Family Development |
Spanish article focusing on kinship care and how it works. http://www.state.nj.us/humanservices/ dfd/kinship_spanish.html |
25 | 17 |
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on the Caregiver: Taking Care of Yourself Too!
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AARP |
An article focusing on the emotional strains and health risks that can
come with taking care of your grandchildren and tips on how to to also
remember to take care of yourself as well as your grandchildren http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16876875/ print/1/displaymode/1098 |
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Grand parenting & Step grand parenting: When Grandparents Become Parents to
Their Grandchildren |
Gebeke, Deb |
Fact sheet on the adjustments grandparents have to make when taking over
the role of parents http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/pubs/yf/famsci/fs561w.htm |
25 | 4 |
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Grandparents Parenting Grandchildren and Kinship Care Support;
Information and Support Resources |
Keith L, Kimberly |
Webpage containing Information and Support Resources on Grandparents
parenting grandchildren and kin care support http://childparenting.about.com/od/familyissues /a/grandfamilies.htm |
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Grandparents Raising Grandchildren |
Article explaining the many challenges
which can pop up when taking on the responsibility of parenting
grandchildren, it also talks about the many positive factors of being a
parent for the second time. http://www.foreverfamilies.net/xml/articles/grandparents_ raising_grandchildren.aspx |
25 | 9 |
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Grandparents Raising Grandchildren |
AARP |
This article goes into detail about the adjustments, challenges and
support that many grandparents will need when faced with the challenge
of raising their grandchildren. http://kinkonnect.org/images/New%20Jersey%2008%20REV.pdf |
25 | 33 |
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Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Caring for Yourself |
This article gives tips on how to take care of yourself as well as your
grandchildren. http://kinkonnect.org/images/New%20Jersey%2008%20REV.pdf |
25 | 35 |
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Grandparents Raising Grandkids |
Woolston, Chris |
This article shares the story of one grandmothers struggle to raise her
grandchildren and how she started a support group in her community it
also lists other resources in which other grandparents in that situation
can turn too. |
25 | 34 |
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Help for Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Health Insurance |
AARP |
This article explains the two different programs a child can apply for
in order to get health insurance. http://kinkonnect.org/images/New%20Jersey%2008%20REV.pdf |
25 | 30 |
| Title | Author | Description | Binder | Article
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| Help For Grandparents
Raising Grandchildren: Tax Tips |
AARP | This article explains
how low-income people and families can receive EITC. http://kinkonnect.org/images/New%20Jersey%2008%20REV.pdf |
25 | 32 |
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Help For Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: When your Grandchild's
Parent is in Prison |
AARP |
This article explains how to approach your grandchild/grandchildren on
why their parents are in prison. http://kinkonnect.org/images/New%20Jersey%2008%20REV.pdf |
25 | 31 |
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How to Place an Adoption on File |
Department of Health and Senior Services |
Info on how to place an adoption on file. |
25 | 12 |
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Instructions For Kinship Adoption |
This article contains standard instructions for kinship adoption and is for informational purposes only | 25 | 18 |
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Kinship Care |
National Resource Center | "Kinship Care" gives an insight on what Kinship care is, the state and federal policies, substance abuse and kinship care, characteristics of caregivers as well as the child's characteristics. | 25 | 19 |
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Kinship Care Program |
Department of Health and Family Services |
Small article on the kinship care program. http://dhfs.wisconsin.gov/children/kinship/ |
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Article Number |
| Kinship
Caregivers and the Child Welfare System |
Child Welfare Information Gateway | Fact sheet for families | 25 | 10 |
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Kinship Foster Parents: Are We Part of the Problem or the Solution? |
How foster care can be a challenge and what to expect when becoming a foster parent. | 25 | 7 |
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Larger Number of Grandparents Taking Care of Their Children |
Senior Journal | Short article stating the amount of grandparents which are "extensive caregivers" to their grandchildren | 25 | 2 |
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Legal Options for Caregivers |
Article giving the facts
on the legal options for relative caregivers; these legal options
include guardianship and legal custody, open adoption, Defacto
Custodian, Standby and Permanent guardianship, subsidized guardianship,
and it also includes medical and educational consent http://www.adopting.org/adoptions/legal-options-for-caregivers-page-1-adoption-3.html |
25 | 11 |
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New Jersey Fact Sheet for Grandparents and other Relatives Raising
Children |
AARP |
Facts and programs pertaining to grandparents raising their
grandchildren. http://kinkonnect.org/images/New%20Jersey%2008%20REV.pdf |
25 | 1 |
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Ohio State University Extension: Grandparents as Parents Again |
Overview of advantages
and gifts that taking care of your grandchildren can bring into your
life. http://ohioline.osu.edu/ss-fact/0157.html |
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Providing Childcare for Grandchildren: When Grandparents Provide
Childcare |
AARP |
Article for grandparents who provide the main source of childcare for
there grandchildren. http://kinkonnect.org/images/New%20Jersey%2008%20REV.pdf |
25 | 14 |
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Providing Childcare for Grandchildren: When Grandparents Provide
Childcare |
AARP |
Article one's grandmother's story on how she takes care of her
grandchildren while there parents are working, it also explains the
challenges one goes through because they are becoming caregivers for the
second time around. http://kinkonnect.org/images/New%20Jersey%2008%20REV.pdf |
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Providing Childcare for Grandchildren; Creating a Family Childcare
Agreement |
AARP |
Tips on how to talk to your adult children about rules and boundaries
when taking care of you grandchildren http://kinkonnect.org/images/New%20Jersey%2008%20REV.pdf |
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Public Benefits: Care and Related Supports |
25 | 27 |
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Public Benefits: Cash Assistance |
25 | 24 |
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Public Benefits: Disabilities |
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Public Benefits: Food and Home Energy |
25 | 26 |
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Public Benefits: Health |
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Public Benefits: Tax Credit |
25 | 29 |
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Services for Kinship Care |
Ehrle, Jennifer Geen, Rob |
"Services for Kinship Care" gives a brief overview of the hardships that
the majority of kinship families must face, poverty being one of the
biggest problems, it also gives an insight on the lack of services
provided for kinship families in comparison to foster families and what
is being done to change that. http://www.connectforkids.org/node/575 |
25 | 20 |
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Taking Care Of Your Grandchildren |
Tips on raising your grandchildren today, includes general health and
safety within the home and outside of it. http://kidshealth.org/parent/positive/family/ grandkids.html |
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The Evolution of Kinship Care Policy and Practice |
Geen, Rob M.P.P | This article "The
Evolution of Kinship Care Policy and Practice" focuses on the hard. http://www.futureofchildren.org/information2826/ information_show.htm?doc_id=209553 |
25 | 21 |
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When Grandparents Become Parents to Their Grandchildren |
Gebeke, Deb | Fact Sheet | 25 | 8 |
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Key Developments: kinship Legal Guardianship |
Goldhil, Nancy | Fact Sheet http://www.lsnj.org/keyRecentdevelopments/ kinshiplegalguardianship2.htm |
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Legal Relationships
for Kin |
Neighborhood Legal Services Inc. |
Fact Sheet |
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