Children’s Home Network’s Kinship Navigator Program

Connecting to Concrete Resources Through Peer-to-Peer Kinship Navigation Services

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ID21619954
AuthorsKerry Littlewood (0000-0002-8871-4141, PhD, MSW, assistant professor of instruction, University of South Florida, Tampa; president, AAJ Research & Evaluation, Inc., Seminole, FL, USA, corresponding author), Lawrence Cooper (MSW, LCSW, executive vice president of innovation, Children’s Home Network, Inc., Tampa, FL, USA), Michelle Rosenthal (PhD, principal and founder, Data with Purpose, LLC, Berkeley, CA, USA), Paige Averett (0000-0001-8884-0781, PhD, MSW, professor, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA), Anna Yelick (0000-0002-0567-4413, PhD, MSW, research assistant, Florida Institute for Child Welfare at Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA), Russell Bennett (PhD, LMSW, CEO, Collaborative Solutions, Inc.; principal and founder, Center for Social Innovation Research at Collaborative Solutions, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA)
Year2024
Volume105
Issue1
Pages139-151
Publication date2024-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFamilies in Society The Journal of Contemporary Social Services (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1044-3894 • E-ISSN: 1945-1350
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/10443894231196283
OpenAlexW4389203663
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited25

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

Kinship · Kinship care · Political science · Sociology · Welfare · Child Welfare and Adoption · Computer Science · Homelessness and Social Issues · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Psychology

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