Relatives as Parents

The following is a news article by PR Newswire: 

Just in Time for Grandparents' Day: A New Book Offering Wisdom and Support for Grandparents Raising Grandchildren

NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y., Aug. 30, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Sinc

e 1979, families all around the world...

On August 30, 2018 the Budget Review Subcommittee on Human Resources received a Kinship Care update by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services- Department for Community Based Services. Testimony provided by Eric Clark, Commissioner, Department for Community

Based Ser...

GrandParentCamp is coming to NKY! Saturday, September 15, 208 from 8:30am to 11:30am at Sherman Elementary School.

Register Here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScIIZhP3HTyJNuf10BEYBjwKI-e2huzZRUnl_UjAK7Z3O8V0w/viewform?c=0&w=1

Kinship Care in Kentucky Survey

You can access the survey here: https://uky.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9Hpipew9ahNFKu1.

Researchers at the University of Kentucky are inviting you to take part in an anonymous survey about kinship care.  We are interested in your though...

Statement by Donna M. Butts, Executive Director, Generations United

Late last week, Congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018, which was signed into law on March 23, 2018. The bill includes funding for critically important programs for the nearly 2.6 m...

The Cabinet for Health and Family Services has an important update for relative & fictive kin caregivers on financial assistance payments. See the statement below:

FRANKFORT, Ky. (March 5, 2018) – The Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS) is allocating additiona...

On February 13th, the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS) announced in a press release that they will start to provide financial assistance to relative caregivers and fictive kin. 

What does this mean? Kentucky must pay relatives caregivers and f...

Please take a moment to fill out the Kinship Caregivers survey, created by Kentucky Youth Advocates. It is our goal to educate our lawmakers about the large number of families in Kentucky that are impacted by this issue and we need kinship caregivers to tell their stor...

On October 26, 2017, Norma Hatfield, a Kinship Care Program participant, and Senator Dennis Parrett presented testimony to the Budget Review Subcommittee on Human Resources on the reinstatement of the Kentucky Kinship Care Program. At this time, Senator Dennis Parrett...