Love without Borders: Grandfamilies and Immigration
Generations United (2018)
This report reviews policy and program recommendations to support immigrant grandfamilies.
This report reviews policy and program recommendations to support immigrant grandfamilies.
This tip sheet provides an overview of unaccompanied minors and important considerations for supporting the kinship families who care for them upon release from ORR.
This paper reviews the principles of equity in permanency to connect and place children with family locally and globally and offers related practice recommendations.
This brief reviews foster care licensure for immigrant caregivers, describes challenges that state licensing standards may present for undocumented caregivers, and explains how caregivers may overcome these challenges.
This bulletin outlines key considerations for child welfare caseworkers working with immigrant and refugee families and provides strategies to improve services for this population that take into account the unique challenges and circumstances these children and families face.
This report and accompanying slide deck detail the results and recommendations of a study conducted by International Social Service USA to better understand cross-border placements and family finding and to identify systems that facilitate and support international connections for children and youth in the child welfare system.
This new toolkit provides resources and tips to child welfare agencies, other government agencies, and nonprofit organizations so that they can better serve Latino grandfamilies regardless of child welfare involvement.
This article reviews the legal implications of immigration status on foster placements and provides promising practices and other recommendations for those working closely with immigrant caregivers in the child welfare system.
This report highlights the additional hurdles faced by grandfamilies who come together as a result of a parent’s detention or deportation. Those hurdles include restricted access to support and services to help meet the children’s needs, language barriers, and fear of government agencies.
Recent legislation introduced by New York Senator Tony Avella to expand the state’s Kinship Guardianship Assistance Program, benefits foster care providers by supporting the agility and innovation needed to create the stability that young people so desperately need.
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