Guv must restore funding for state child care program • TimesLedger
All too often, other relatives must step in. Grandparents, aunts, uncles — even close family friends — can become foster parents for children whose own parents, for whatever reason, cannot handle the stress of parenthood at this moment in their lives.
That is where the Kinship Caregiver Program is meant to provide help.
The Western Michigan University Board of Trustees approved the formation of a National Research Center for Grandparents Raising Grandchildren at its Dec. 8 meeting. WMU has been involved with the center — which was based at Georgia State University for the past seven years — but is now taking the reins. Georgia State will continue to collaborate in research.
Program aims to foster family ties – JSOnline
It was a journey Juan Diaz thought would never come to an end.
For years, the young father had searched for his son, whom he had last seen when the infant was 6 months old. “His mother moved and changed my son’s name and I couldn’t find him,” he recalls.
Rescuing 4 Children, but Struggling for Assistance – NYTimes.com
Last October, Theresa Coleman received a call from a child-welfare investigator. Four young children, distant family members, had been discovered in a Georgia motel room filled with drugs, alcohol, a half-loaf of bread, a half-jar of peanut butter and a dwindling supply of baby formula.
Ms. Coleman, who lives in the Bayview district of San Francisco, was told she had six days to pick up the children.
Unable to afford a plane ticket, Ms. Coleman rode the bus 2,200 miles to Marietta, Ga.
Kinship care, a state subsidy everyone can get behind
Sara Harper of High Point took in two great-great nieces and a greatgreat nephew with her husband, Curtis, rescuing them from what she characterizes as “some pretty bad circumstances.”
Help for Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
Online database can help grandparents and other relatives raising kin children to find support and services from The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) Foundation.