Foster, relative and kinship care (2024)

FAQs

Do you get paid for kinship care in NY? ›

This program provides financial support and in most cases medical coverage for the child, beginning with the child's discharge from foster care to the guardian. The level of financial support is similar to the maintenance payments received while the child was in foster care.

One of the hardest parts for any foster parent is learning to say goodbye. It happens whenever a foster child is reunified with their birth parents, a legal guardian, or is adopted. In any case, saying goodbye is tough. Often, foster parents don't know what happens to a foster child after they leave.

Kinship care refers to grandparents, other relatives, and even family friends who are caring for children. Most kinship caregivers are not foster parents and provide full-time care for children privately.

Foster parent interviews are conversations. They are designed to help a Homefinder get to know all household members of an applying foster home. They are designed to help a Homefinder understand the household's culture or cultures, beliefs, values, routines, expectations, fears, support systems, and histories.

Yes, New York residents can be paid as family caregivers, but they must meet their program's eligibility requirements. There are several programs available to New York residents that will pay caregivers for providing assistance to their loved ones.

Training. One of the most common reasons qualified foster parents walk away is because they feel ill equipped to deal with challenges they face, especially when older children are introduced into the home. That's what we offer: a comprehensive, trauma-informed training that can give you the tools you need.

Even though foster parents will testify that teens can be the easiest kids to foster, the older kids are much harder to place. Please consider helping older kids. Our team would love to talk with you, whatever your preference. Contact us anytime!

If you receive foster care payments, you have two options for completing your application. You can include the foster children in your household and the foster payments you receive (as unearned income) — or you can decide not to include the foster children and eliminate the foster care payments from your income.

New York State Kinship Guardianship Assistance Program (KinGAP) A guide to KinGAP, a New York program for youth in care to achieve permanent placement with a relative who has been their foster parent for at least six months. Provides financial support and usually medical coverage for youth.

Kinship care means that a child is raised by an adult relative other than a parent. If a child is removed from the child's parent or custodian by Social Services, the Department must investigate whether the child has relatives who should be given notice, who may want to apply to have the child placed in their home.

How do I prepare for my first foster placement? ›

Preparing Your Home for Foster Children

Set up a comfortable bed with fresh linens, organize age-appropriate toys and books, and ensure essential supplies are readily available. Childproof your home to prevent any accidents and make the environment as child-friendly as possible.

An informal kinship care arrangement is where you look after a child but you do not have parental responsibility and they are not in the care of your local council's children's services department.

What is Kinship or Family and Friends care? A family and friends care arrangement, also known as kinship care, is one in which a child who cannot be cared for by their parent(s) or another person with parental responsibility goes to live with a relative, friend, or other connected person.