AARP posts updated fact sheets for grandparent caregivers
September 15, 2005
In a unique national partnership, AARP, the Children’s Defense Fund, Casey Family Programs’ National Center for Resource Family Support, The Brookdale Foundation, the Child Welfare League of America, and Generations United have compiled and released state fact sheets that include:
- Census data on the number of grandparent caregivers and the children they are raising
- A comprehensive list of local programs, resources and services
- State foster care policies for kinship (grandparent and other relative) caregivers
- Information about key public benefit programs
- Important state laws
- National organizations that may be of help