New federal funding
from the Administration for Children and Families is becoming available for
evidence-based kinship navigator programs and to support evaluation of those
programs. Kinship Navigator programs provide information, referral, and follow
up services to grandparents and other relatives raising children to link them
to benefits and services they are the children need. Join this webinar to
learn about planning kinship navigator program evaluations to help meet federal
funding requirements. Details are below.
Description: New federal funding opportunities are available to
support evidence- based kinship navigator programs- programs which provide
information, referral, and follow up services to grandparents and other
relatives raising children to link them to benefits and services that they or
the children need. Join this webinar to learn about planning for the
evaluation for your kinship navigator program to meet evidence-based standards
in the new Family First Prevention Services Act which are required to secure ongoing
federal funding for your program. This webinar will share the evidence
base for a kinship navigation model that includes both organizational and
direct-service components.
When: Monday, July 16,
1:00-2:15 ET
Who: Presenters include Ana Beltran and Jaia Lent of Generations
United, Drs. Kerry Littlewood and Abhishek Pandey who evaluated the Children's
Home Network's Kinship Navigator program in Florida, the kinship navigator
program, the most rigorously tested model in to date in the U.S., and Dr. Michelle
Rosenthal who evaluated two federal demonstration kinship navigation projects
in California, including the United Ways of CA-2-1-1-CA-iFoster Kinship
Navigation Collaborative.
How: Register at https://generationsunited.wufoo.com/forms/evaluating-your-kinship-navigator-program-webinar/
Cost: $40
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