Kinship Caregiver Coalition

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The Kinship Caregiver Coalition has moved to:

1 Elizabeth Place, West Medical Plaza, Suite 110
Dayton, OH 45417

Kinship Contact Numbers

Intake: 937-775-8245
Dionne Simmons: 937-775-8249
Bonnie Grooms: 937-775-8246
Adel Samad: 937-775-8247
Fax: 937-775-8256

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What is Kinship Care?

Kinship care refers to a temporary or permanent arrangement in which a relative or any non-relative adult who has a relationship or bond with the child is caring for that child in the place of its parents.

Kinship care includes relationships established through an informal arrangement, legal custody or guardianship order, foster care placement or kinship adoption. Kinship care arrangements often occur because the child's parents are either unable or unwilling to provide parental care because of death, incarceration, domestic violence, unemployment, poverty, or drug abuse. According to the Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Task Force Report, issued by the Ohio Department of Aging, grandparents are the largest group of kinship caregivers.