We have a very unique program in that we are a private provider agency for our local county child welfare agency. Child Welfare recognized that it had a lot of children coming into kinship care, and they did not have the staff adequately prepared to deal with the complicated needs that they were seeing in terms of engaging families. McDaniel describes the program and its comprehensive services for kinship foster caregivers. Grandparents and relatives are performing an incredible task in this country. They're holding our families together.
Butts elaborates on the challenges that kinship care families face and overcome.
The first was welfare reform in 1996. Pryor discusses other legislation affecting kinship care policies and families.