Policy update: Federal and state legislation to support granfamilies

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dc.contributor.authorBeltran, A.
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-08T17:18:23Z
dc.date.available2015-01-08T17:18:23Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractBuilding on the progress of the last 20 years, helpful federal and state legislation continues to be pursued on behalf of grandfamilies. This update summarizes policy efforts during the last year and looks ahead to what is on the horizon. At the federal level, legislative efforts are focused on grandfamilies who are involved with the child welfare system. States are responding to federal activity by enacting policies to place more children with relatives and better serve grandfamilies who come into contact with the system, including “family finding” laws and including fictive kin as “relatives.” State policymakers are also striving to support the vast majority of grandfamilies who are outside the formal foster care system. States are increasingly collaborating across agencies to support grandfamilies with help from the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, and are creating more educational and health care consent laws. These budget neutral laws respond to the needs of the families by allowing children in the care of their relatives to access public school tuition-free, as well as the array of necessary health care.en_US
dc.identifier.citationBeltran, A. (2014). Policy Update: Federal and State Legislation to Support Grandfamilies. GrandFamilies: The Contemporary Journal of Research, Practice and Policy, 1 (1).en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://scholarworks.wmich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1015&context=grandfamilies
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/2057
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherGrandFamilies: The Contemporary Journal of Research, Practice and Policyen_US
dc.subjectlegislationen_US
dc.subjectgrandfamiliesen_US
dc.subjectfederalen_US
dc.subjectstateen_US
dc.subjectchild welfareen_US
dc.titlePolicy update: Federal and state legislation to support granfamiliesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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