When children can’t live with their parents, other family members often step in to take over full-time responsibility for their care.
Experts say those kinship caregivers offer stability for children -- allowing them to live with someone they already know -- at a time of uncertainty.
But while Ohio and Kentucky offer financial help to foster parents, kinship caregivers haven’t been getting as much assistance. And a plan to boost financial help for kinship caregivers in Kentucky has been stalled.
On Cincinnati Edition, we discuss the resources kinship caregivers need and policy recommendations to support families.
Guests:
· Norma Hatfield, president, Kinship Families Coalition of Kentucky
· Jessica Thompson, foster care director, The Buckeye Ranch
· Kathy, kinship care provider in Ohio
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