By Legal Intern Kelly Monahan Benefits of Kinship Care  Kinship care – placing children with relatives rather than non-relative foster parents – is associated with significant benefits for children and youth, including improved mental and behavioral health. Specifically, kinship care may help mitigate the trauma of removal when children are placed with relative caregivers who … Continue reading BLOG: Kinship Care and New Jersey’s Revised Kinship Legal Guardianship Act