Toolkit – Latino Grandfamilies: Helping Children Thrive Through Connection to Culture and Family

Culturally appropriate services are needed to support Latino families as they navigate kinship care placements, which appeal to the family system fundamental to Latino culture. This toolkit fills a critical gap to help organizations and individuals across the country enhance their understanding and skills to help children and caregivers in grandfamilies thrive. The concrete tools include information on the diversity of Latinos and how to serve them with cultural competence that leverages their many strengths, the benefits and strengths of preserving and restoring cultural identity, as well as practice and policy recommendations for addressing systemic racism and biases that limit existing support to Latino grandfamilies and the children they raise.