US: Celebrating Grandparents Day and Kinship Care Month (Press release)

Administration for Community Living – September 08, 2024

Today is Grandparents Day, and the month of September is National Kinship Care Month. As part of our celebration of both, and in recognition of the contributions of the nation’s grandparent and kin caregivers, ACL welcomes this guest blog post by Ana Beltran, director of the ACL-funded Grandfamilies & Kinship Support Network,the nation’s first federally funded technical assistance center that helps government agencies and nonprofits in states, tribes, and territories work across boundaries to improve supports and services for families in which grandparents, other relatives, or close family friends are raising children.

Also: 2022 Report to Congress by the Advisory Council to Support Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: https://acl.gov/SGRG/report

https://acl.gov/news-and-events/acl-blog/celebrating-grandparents-day-and-kinship-care-month