Advocacy Tools

What’s Good and What’s Missing in Child Welfare Task Force Findings (1/22)
Review cites Need for Prevention, Reform, Kinship Care, Family Services and Rights

Kinship Care Resource Center: Information and referral assistance
from Kinship Care Navigators to connect caregivers and service providers to resources to support kinship families. Also offers trainings and lists of local resources.
- Statewide phone support 800-535-1218
  Searchable online help center: https://kinshipmsu.my.site.com/s/
  Kinship Caregiver Legal Guide: https://kinship.msu.edu/sites/default/files/legal-guide/Kinship-Care-Legal-Guide.pdf
- Trainings and support groups:
  https://kinship.msu.edu/Resources/Support-Groups
- Kinship resources: https://kinship.msu.edu/Resources
Osofomaame: Centered in Kent County, this group is committed to reducing the overrepresentation of Black families in the child welfare system. They offer culturally competent education, tools and resources to agencies, kinship and foster carers of Black children and youth. They also have programs for Black foster youth aging out of foster care. https://www.osofomaame.org
Michigan Kinship Care Coalition: providing support and advocacy for kinship families across Michigan. https://mi-kinship.org

Fact Sheet. Generations United.
https://www.gu.org/app/uploads/2022/05/General-Grandfamilies-Fact-Sheet-2022.pdf
2. Grandfacts – State Fact Sheets – Michigan. Grandfamilies.
https://www.grandfamilies.org/Portals/0/State%20Fact%20Sheets/Michigan%20Fact%20Sheet%202024%20Update.pdf