NY: Non-Parent Relatives & Family Friends Caring For Children Gain Legal Standing In NYS
Harlem World Magazine – August 01, 2021
Non-parent relatives and family friends–disproportionately African American and mostly grandparents. Raising nearly 200,000 children in New York now have legal status as “kinship caregivers” under a new law signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo. The law culminates two decades of advocacy on behalf of kinship caregivers by AARP, the NYS Kinship Navigator, the KinCare Coalition and others, and was among the recommendations in Disrupt Disparities: Kinship Care in Crisis. That report, released earlier this year by AARP New York, the NAACP New York State Chapter, New York Urban League, Hispanic Federation and Asian American Federation, is part of the groups’ ongoing “Disrupting Racial & Ethnic Disparities” initiative.
Also: Disrupt Disparities: Kinship Care in Crisis: https://aarp-states.brightspotcdn.com/80/58/66bd55214a8b9581fae55af253b6/disrupt-disparities-kinship-care-in-crisis-3-21.pdf
Also: Disrupting Racial and Ethnic Disparities: https://states.aarp.org/new-york/disrupting-racial-ethnic-disparities?CMP=RDRCT-STATES-NY-ADV-010418

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