Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 15—Keeping families together is a key component of the Kinship program designed to help adult relatives assist children in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. About 36,000 New Mexico children were raised by their grandparents or other next-of-kin in 2023. (Photo courtesy of New Mexico ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- It's a startling number -- about 22% of San Francisco's unhoused population were once in the foster care system, according to a city report. That's what makes the work of the ...

Nearly 3 million grandparents across the country are caring for their children’s children, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Often they have no formal custody arrangement, no legal guardianship and ...

Rearing a child is hard work, physically, emotionally and financially. Ask any parent or guardian. There is no down time, no vacation, from parental responsibility. If you’re lucky, you have an ...

COLUMBIA, SC (WSPA) — South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster was joined by South Carolina Department of Social Services (DSS) Director Michael Leach, members of the General Assembly, non-profit ...

While sitting at the Caldwell Zoo in Tyler, Jeannie Wiedenbeck explains how her life drastically changed a year ago. "I got a call asking us if we could take Deanna and I didn't have any idea what was ...

The Kinship Care Program run by the Child Care Coordinating Council of the North Country could cease to be should the state budget pass as now proposed. "Depending on what kind of money we get, I ...

Kinship care is an arrangement where children are placed with relatives or close family friends if their biological parents are unable to care for them. GREELEY, Colo. — The state of Colorado has ...

September is National Kinship Care Month, and on Sept. 15, the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) hosted a kickoff event for the new Colorado Kinnected Kinship Navigator Program at the Adams ...