The Vermont Kinship Care Kids is a group of kinship caregivers, kinship caregiver advocates and service providers throughout Vermont whose purpose is to:
- Inform kinship caregivers and agencies about state and national programs/issues impacting kinship caregivers
- Advocate at local, state and national levels for support of kinship families
- Provide a networking system for caregivers and agencies
- Encouraging the development of community partnerships with kinship caregivers to improve, expand, and sustain programs and services to kinship families
- Link Kinship caregivers with services in their communities
- Identify and establish a network of Kinship support in each county of Vermont.
- Increase knowledge and awareness of Kinship caregivers and their needs among the education, health, housing, human/social service providers and legal community.
- Collaborate with and other statewide organizations dedicated to building support and services for kinship caregivers.
Vermont Kinship Care Kids
on Facebook
The Kinship Care Kids Facebook group
currently has 68 members from
throughout Vermont and
the rest of the country. This is a closed group
that requires anyone
interested to be approved
by the moderator. Feel free
to inform other kinship
caregivers of this resource.
This group provided many
Kinship Caregivers with
immediate support, encouragement,
referral and information. There is a
Kinship Chat option that meets online a
s needed and fills a need
when face to face support
group meeting is not available
The Vermont Kinship Care Kids website is supported solely by donations and maintained by a volunteer webmaster.
Won't you please help support the Vermont Kinship Care Kids website with your generous donation
