SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- It's a startling number -- about 22% of San Francisco's unhoused population were once in the foster care system, according to a city report. That's what makes the work of the ...

About 36,000 New Mexico children were raised by their grandparents or other next-of-kin in 2023. (Photo courtesy of New Mexico Aging Services) Kinship caregivers in approximately half a dozen counties ...

With January being National Mentoring Month, Kinship of Martin County is full throttle into a new year of assisting local ...

Nearly 3 million grandparents across the country are caring for their children’s children, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Often they have no formal custody arrangement, no legal guardianship and ...

Kinship Partners plans to expand its Lunch Buddies, a school-based mentoring program, to more schools in the Brainerd area. Lunch Buddies has been set up in schools in Staples, Motley, Pequot Lakes ...

Rearing a child is hard work, physically, emotionally and financially. Ask any parent or guardian. There is no down time, no vacation, from parental responsibility. If you’re lucky, you have an ...

BRAINERD — Beginning this summer, Kinship Partners, a local youth mentoring organization, is moving programming to the Brainerd Family YMCA. “This is a big transition for our programs and staff,” said ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — The number of grandparents and older adults raising children continues to climb, according to the Area Office on Aging (AOoA). In light of this increase, the organization has developed ...

The Kinship Care Program run by the Child Care Coordinating Council of the North Country could cease to be should the state budget pass as now proposed. "Depending on what kind of money we get, I ...

Emily Newman, a Litchfield Middle School eighth-grader enrolled in the Litchfield Area Mentorship Program Kinship about a year ago, after her mother heard from a friend how beneficial the program was ...

September is National Kinship Care Month, and on Sept. 15, the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) hosted a kickoff event for the new Colorado Kinnected Kinship Navigator Program at the Adams ...

AUSTIN - Lisa and Ashley Mitchell faced an uncertain future when the grandmother raising them died. Thrust into the foster care system, they could have bounced like many children from placement to ...