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Children’s Home Network’s Kinship Navigator Program: Connecting to Concrete Resources Through Peer-to-Peer Kinship Navigation Services

Published:2023-11-29 Issue: Volume: Page:
ISSN:1044-3894
Container-title:Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services
language:en
Short-container-title:Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services

Author:

Littlewood Kerry¹^ORCID,Cooper Lawrence²,Rosenthal Michelle³,Averett Paige⁴^ORCID,Yelick Anna⁵,Bennett Russell⁶

Affiliation:

1. PhD, MSW, assistant professor of instruction, University of South Florida, Tampa; president, AAJ Research & Evaluation, Inc., Seminole, FL, USA

2. MSW, LCSW, executive vice president of innovation, Children’s Home Network, Inc., Tampa, FL, USA

3. PhD, principal and founder, Data with Purpose, LLC, Berkeley, CA, USA

4. PhD, MSW, professor, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA

5. PhD, MSW, research assistant, Florida Institute for Child Welfare at Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA

6. PhD, LMSW, CEO, Collaborative Solutions, Inc.; principal and founder, Center for Social Innovation Research at Collaborative Solutions, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

Abstract

Peer-to-Peer Kinship Navigation (P2PKN) employs someone with lived kinship caregiving experience in providing support to others experiencing similar challenges. This study examines if P2PKN improves concrete resource benefits application and enrollment and how it compares to other study groups (peer-to-peer plus innovations, formally trained kinship navigators, and usual child welfare services). Using data from the Children’s Home Network Kinship Navigator randomized control trial, this study compared the application and enrollment data for kinship caregivers in Temporary Assistance for Needy Family (TANF) Child Only Program for different types of kinship care program groups. Study findings revealed that P2PKN excelled at connecting caregivers to concrete resources and had significantly higher TANF application and enrollment rates than other groups.

Funder

The University of South Florida

United Ways of Tampa Bay

Florida Institute for Child Welfare

U.S. Children's Bureau

Florida Department of Children and Families

Juvenile Welfare Board of Pinellas County

Children’s Board of Hillsborough County

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/10443894231196283

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