Kinship Support Program
The Kinship Care Resource Center is one of several community programs in the School of Social Work at Michigan State University. The KCRC serves kinship care families across the state by providing information and referrals to resources and services for caregivers and the children they are raising. KCRC also offers support to professionals serving kinship families.
The MSU KCRC seeks to develop program capacity to implement a kinship care navigator model for service delivery, thus expanding our ability to support current and prospective kinship caregivers. These efforts focus first on families who are caring for relative children (and prospective families) and then extend to referral sources (schools, places of worship, community centers), service providers and broad networks (i.e.community collaboratives, MSU Extension, local and central Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Child Welfare offices, Michigan Federation of Youth and Families, PARC’s, SCAO.)
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Project Contact:
- Beth Lindley
- Social Work
- College of Social Science
- lindleyb@msu.edu
Partners
- Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS)
- Area Agencies on Aging 1-B
- Tri County Office on Aging
- MI Great Start Collaboratives
- Early On
- Administration for Children and Families
- Oakland Livingston Human Service Agency
- Family Enrichment Center
- Generations United
- Judson Center
- Ennis Center
- Early Childhood Investment Corporation
- Michigan Association of Continuing Adult Education
- Michigan Department of Health and Human Services
Report of calendar year 2021 activity.