Input needed: Supporting Grandparents Raising Grandchildren

If you are (or once were) a grandparent or other older relative raising children, or if your organization provides support for those who are, the Advisory Council to Support Grandparents Raising Grandchildren needs your help to identify:

Best practices, resources, and other useful information for grandparents and other older relatives raising children
Gaps in available resources
Unique needs of children affected by opioid misuse
Unique needs of members of Native American tribes.

This information will be used to plan the Council’s future activities and ultimately will be included in a report to Congress, which also will be shared publicly.

To provide your input, please complete the following form no later than 11:59 p.m. EST on Friday, February 7, 2020.

Your name and email address are required, but you may provide input on as many or as few of the remaining topics as you wish. (Please do NOT include personally identifiable information such as names of anyone other than yourself or addresses, phone numbers or Social Security numbers of any individual. Submissions that include such information will be deleted without review.)

Complete RFI

Name

Organization (if applicable)

Your email address

Please tell us about any existing information, resources, programs and/or best practices that help grandparents, older relatives and/or kinship caregivers do the following:

Meet the mental/physical health, educational or nutritional needs of those for whom they provide care

Address other concerns such as legal assistance, financial support and affordable housing associated with this population of caregivers and care recipients

Maintain their own physical and mental health, and emotional and financial wellbeing

Please tell us about any existing information, resources, programs and/or best practices that meet the needs of:

Grandfamilies/Kinship families affected by the opioid epidemic or other substance misuse. This could include issues experienced by children who were exposed prenatally to alcohol or drugs, as well as family issues associated with substance abuse.

Native American tribes

What are the support needs that are not being met for:

Grandparents and other older relatives who are raising or supporting grandchildren

Children in the care of a grandparent and/or older relative

Input needed: Supporting Grandparents Raising Grandchildren

Please tell us about any existing information, resources, programs and/or best practices that help grandparents, older relatives and/or kinship caregivers do the following:

Please tell us about any existing information, resources, programs and/or best practices that meet the needs of:

What are the support needs that are not being met for:

Do you think additional federal legislation is needed to better support and serve grandparents and older relatives raising children? Please describe:

Please share any additional recommendations you have for supporting grandparents and older relatives caring for children?