Opportunity for Tribal Agencies and Community-Based Organizations: Culturally based relative care practices are at the foundation of strong, thriving Native families. NICWA and Grandfamilies & Kinship Support Network are recognizing exemplary kinship programs, policies, and practices that integrate culture into service delivery for Native relative caregivers. This recognition is an opportunity to elevate culturally based approaches as the gold standard in relative care/kinship care. If you have a practice, policy, or program serving relatives caring for relative children, apply for this designation and help shape the future of best practices! The deadline to apply is Tuesday, April 22. Learn more at https://lnkd.in/eFUHs933.
Does your agency or community-based organization have a practice that supports kinship families? Would you like your work to be nationally recognized as "Exemplary" and elevated and shared with others who can use it to help kinship families in their communities? This opportunity complements our previous Exemplary Program initiative. Now, we'd like to share practices from any of our eight systems - aging, child welfare, disability, education, housing, Medicaid/Medicare, nutrition, and TANF. The practice may be kin-specific or more general and implemented in a way that helps kinship families. Examples include: ?? Schools with forms and protocols that help kin enroll the children they raise in school ?? States with working groups of multiple agencies and kin caregivers that help coordinate services and supports for kinship families ?? Kinship navigators with easy-to-follow videos that help caregivers understand their legal options and/or complete applications for public benefits ?? Tribes with supportive kin policies, such as streamlined Tribal TANF child-only applications for relatives to apply for grants that help meet the needs of children ???? Child welfare agencies with firewall policies that are implemented well and help ensure children removed from their parents are placed with kin ?? Area Agencies on Aging or Title VI programs that braid funding so that caregiver support groups can serve relative caregivers under age 55 These are just a few examples - please share your great work with us! ? Apply by April 22nd: https://lnkd.in/eFUHs933 ?? As always, let us know if you have any questions: you can type them in the comments below or email Shalah Bottoms, Technical Assistance Specialist, at [email protected]. #KinshipCare, #Grandfamilies