Kinship care means a family member supports the daily needs of a relative’s minor child, and their ranks are growing. More than 43,000 people in the state care for a relative’s minor child – as ...

SOUTH PORTLAND – The Kinship Support Group will hold meetings for the community at the South Portland Library with Adoptive and Foster Families of Maine and Southern Maine Area Agency on Aging. Brigid ...

According to the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse, more than 1.3 million American children are in kinship care. Relatives other than their parents are raising them. "Generally their parents ...

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WHERE: Frontier Behavioral Health, 5125 N. Market St. WHEN: Second Wednesday of each month from 9:30 to 11 a.m. MORE INFO: Patricia Robinson, with Kinship Navigator Program, (509) 458-7450, ext. 4.

Lutheran Social Services of North Dakota is gathering input on the needs and challenges of those who provide kinship care by opening their lives and homes to a grandchild, niece or nephew, a ...

As a kid, my favorite thing to do with my grandfather was ride horses. In the winter, he’d stop every day as we rode at the same point. He’d get off his horse and take off my boot to feel my feet. If ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As a new grandparent, I looked forward to spending quality time with my grandkids. But when my daughter’s lifelong struggle with mental health came to a ...

A growing network of support groups is helping kinship carers through some of their most challenging moments. Kinship carers are relatives, often a grandparent, aunt or uncle, or close family friend ...