Rainie Jueschke, CEO, Innovative Solutions for Disadvantage and Disability in Decatur (Atlanta), GA - we operate a kinship program for families that include children with special needs.

Terri Aguilera-Flemming, Social Worker, Casey Family Programs, Yakima Field Office (WA)

Hello, everyone! My name is Whitney Robertson and I am a Director at Think of Us. We are the new partner providing the Kinship Navigator program in partnership with CA DSS. So excited to be here!

Kathy Dial, Executive Director, Kids, Kin 'n Caregivers Inc. Norfolk, Virginia

Good afternoon! Crystal Ward Allen, Casey Family Programs

Good afternoon! Jeannie Berzinskas, Colorado Department of Human Services, Kinship Care Program Administrator

Hello everyone! Kristen Barnett, ABA Center on Children and the Law intern

Hello everyone and good morning! This is Lily Colby from the California Department of Social Services Foster Caregiver Policy and Support Unit.

Thanks for joining us today. Please remember to put any questions in the Q&A box, not here, so they don't get lost.

please put tech issues in the chat if possible. thanks

Hello Everybody! Sarah Smalls, Grands Member and Kinship Family consultant for Formed Families Forward; a non profit for foster, adoptive and kinship families whose children have special educational needs.

Hi Everyone, Stephanie Perkowski from Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago. I'm a consultant supporting the design and implementation of Ohio's new statewide kinship and adoption navigator program OhioKAN.

We've had a few questions about how to access the checklist. You can find that at https://www.grandfamilies.org/Portals/0/Documents/FFPSA/FFPSA%20kinship%20checklist.pdf

https://www.grandfamilies.org/Resources/Kinship-Navigator-Programs'

Please put any questions in the Q and A box, as we're concerned they'll get lost here.

APHSA

https://www.aphsa.org/

Here's a good kinship primer example, produced in Texas - https://texaslawhelp.org/article/texas-kincare-primer

I might have missed this but can non-safety waivers be afforded to kin certified providers? Are those waivers to kin prohibited by federal law?

No in fact they are strongly encouraged to be used to waive non safety standards for kin

Please see the IM linked in the checklist and in the slides - https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/documents/cb/im2008.pdf

Thank you!

www.grandfamilies.org

thank you