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State Fact Sheets Benefits QuickLink: Online Tool for Grandfamilies

AARP Foundation Grandparenting
www.aarp.org/families/grandparents/

www.aarp.org/families/grandparents/gic/a2004-01-16-grandparentsinfocenter.html

www.aarp.org/families/grandparents/gic/gic_pubs.html (To order free grandparenting resource materials.)

American Bar Association Kinship Care Legal Research Center

www.abanet.org/child/kinshipcare.shtml

Brookdale Foundation Group Relatives as Parents Program

www.brookdalefoundation.org/relativesasparents.htm

Casey Family Programs

www.casey.org/Resources/Projects/BSC/KinshipCare (Breakthrough Series Collaborative)

www.powerfulfamilies.org/Pages/default.aspx (Powerful Families)

Child Welfare League of America

www.cwla.org/programs/kinship/default.htm

Children’s Defense Fund

www.childrensdefense.org/site/PageNavigator/policy_cw_kinship

www.childrensdefense.org/site/PageServer?pagename=research_CWMH

Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, US Department of Agriculture

www.csrees.usda.gov/nea/family/pdfs/aging_resources.pdf

Generations United

www.gu.org

www.gu.org/Defin8191322.asp (National Center on Grandfamilies)

Georgia State University

www2.gsu.edu/~wwwalh/aboutus.html (Project Healthy Grandparents)

http://chhs.gsu.edu/nationalcenter (National Center on Grandparents Raising Grandchildren)

Grandfamilies of America

www.grandfamiliesofamerica.com/

Grandparent Resource Sites

www.wmich.edu/grs/

National Center for Frontier Communities

http://frontierus.org/Grandparents.htm

National Committee of Grandparents for Children’s Rights

www.grandparentsforchildren.org/

United States Census Bureau

www.factfinder.census.gov

University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension

www.uwex.edu/relationships/index.html

Urban Institute

www.urban.org/issues/index.cfm Opens Browse by Topic Search Box – type in “Kinship Care”

Grandfamilies Bibliographies on the Web – 2008

GU Intergenerational Reference List 2007
http://www.gu.org/Bibli6271211.asp
This intergenerational database, sorted by keywords and grouped into similar categories, was compiled in August 2003 and updated June 2004, January 2006, and January 2007 by Abbie Lawrence-Jacobson, Ph.D. from the Joint Doctoral Program in Social Work and Sociology at the University of Michigan. It contains information on some 1,300 references.

GU Grandfamilies Annotated Bibliography 2002
http://ipath.gu.org/documents/A0/Grandfamilies_AnnotatedBibliography.pdf
The bibliography includes over 70 pages of audiovisual resources, books, reports, guides, journal articles, research studies, training manuals and curricula, popular press and national websites.

GU Intergenerational Issues Annotated Bibliography
http://ipath.gu.org/documents/A0/Intergenerational_Issues_Bibliography.pdf
The bibliography includes 10 pages of referenced materials

CWLA Annotated Bibliography: Moving from Research to Practice
http://www.cwla.org/programs/r2p/bibliokc.pdf
Child Welfare League of America reviews of studies on kinship care

Council on Accreditation Kinship Care Services
http://www.coastandards.org/downloads/KC/KC%20Reference%20List.pdf
The bibliography lists “Probably Effective Practices”

Council on Social Work Education
http://depts.washington.edu/geroctr/Curriculum3/Bibliographies/AnnBiblioGrandparents.doc
Annotated Bibliography: Grandparents Raising Grandchildren

University of Victoria
http://socialwork.uvic.ca/grandmoms/bibliog.htm
Selected bibliography on Grandmothers Caring for Grandchildren

Grandfamilies Media Links - June 2008

http://www.wifr.com/home/headlines/20750824.html

Grandparents raising grandchildren in Winnebago County, WI

http://www.bclocalnews.com/surrey_area/surreyleader/lifestyles/20080809.html

Grandparents raising grandchildren in British Columbia (Canada)

412084.html

According to a study by Idaho Kids Count, children benefit emotionally and physically by being in kin-care rather than foster care.

http://www.dshs.wa.gov/mediareleases/2008/pr08043.shtml

Foster children and children who live with unlicensed relative caregivers are entitled to free campsites in Washington state parks.

http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTON27748920080602

According to a study in the June 2008 Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine by Dr. David M. Rubin of Children's Hospital in Philadelphia, children do better with relatives than with foster care.