Non-traditional family caregivers gain extra support through new foster care license

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – September is kinship care awareness month, and it’s the first year since a new state regulation has gone into effect that allows foster care agencies to better help families and children.

For the first time in Colorado, non-traditional families will have access to the same resources in foster care. That means a grandparent, aunt, or neighbor can now obtain a new kinship foster care license.

A foster mom I spoke to says it’s transformed her family’s lives…

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