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Effectiveness of Support Services for Kinship Families
While the practice of kin parenting children when their parents cannot is a time-honored tradition in most cultures, the formal use of kinship care in child welfare has been much more recent. Increasingly, agencies are recognizing the importance of providing support and information to kinship caregivers to better ensure the safety, permanency, and well-being of children in care.
Culture and Caregiving: A Study of Latino Grandparents
Cox, Brooks, & Valcarcel (2000)
In To Grandmother's House We Go and Stay: Perspectives on Custodial Grandparents
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Reviews the traditions of Latino culture and describes a program developed to support Latino custodial grandparents in the Washington Heights area of New York City. Presented as a school outreach effort, the Kinship Parenting Education and Support Program's educational curriculum reviewed the stages of child development, discipline and parental responsibilities, communication, childcare, and financial assistance.
Family Support Services for Grandparents and Other Relative Caregivers for Children of Substance Abusing and HIV-Positive Women
Yale University Child Study Center (2001)
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Activities and outcomes of the federally funded Yale Support Program for Family Caregivers, which provided home- and community-based supportive mental health and case management services for relative caregivers of drug- or HIV-affected children whose parents have died or have been unable to meet their everyday needs.
Forging Connections: Challenges and Opportunities for Older Caregivers Raising Children (PDF - 498 KB)
New York Council on Adoptable Children (2004)
Examines common challenges and offers policy and practice recommendations to better support elderly caregivers and the children in their homes.
Juggling the Multiple Facets of Case Management With Relative Caregiver Families
Haner & Bouchard
The Source, 12(1), 2003
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Presents case studies from the GRO project in Albuquerque to illustrate the support needs of relative caregivers.
A Multimodal Intervention for Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Results of an Exploratory Study
Kelley, Yorker, Whitley, & Sipe
Child Welfare, 80(1), 2001
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Results of an exploratory study of a multimodal, home-based intervention designed to reduce psychological stress, improve physical and mental health, and strengthen the social support and resources of grandparents raising grandchildren.