Foster Kinship

Alarmingly, six percent of children in Nevada are growing up without either parent. Relatives and family friends step up, ensuring children who can't live safely with their parents live with family. 

However, kinship families find their willingness is not met with the support and resources they need to raise healthy children. Kinship families need help. 

We close this gap by providing evidence-informed programs that strengthen caregivers' capacity to provide safe, permanent, and nurturing  homes for vulnerable children. 

Foster Kinship helps keep home in the family. 

We believe that when children can’t be with their parents, they should be with their family. Foster Kinship was established as a 501(c)(3) organization in 2011 to help the 33,000 children in Nevada living with relative caregivers, also known as kinship care.

Foster Kinship was founded with a mission to “strengthen the kinship caregivers’ capacity to provide safe, permanent, and nurturing homes for children. Foster Kinship is the only organization in Nevada exclusively serving kinship children and families. Since its inception, Foster Kinship has proudly served thousands of kinship families across Nevada. 

Foster Kinship provides free programs for kinship caregivers: Kinship Navigator Service, Child Welfare Training, and Childcare Programing. Foster Kinship also advocates for all kinship families to receive equitable access to services.

By helping to “keep home in the family” for vulnerable children, Foster Kinship envisions a safe and healthy childhood for ALL children in kinship care.