Kinship program will begin after rulemaking this summer

Kinship program will begin after rulemaking this summer

About 36,000 New Mexico children were raised by their grandparents or other next-of-kin in 2023. (Photo courtesy of New Mexico Aging Services)Kinship caregivers in approximately half a dozen counties will be part of a new pilot program expected to start this summer designed to help support older New Mexicans and other relatives who take over raising children when parents are unable to do so. That program is a result of House Bill 252, which esta…

National FASD Responds to ASGSF Cuts

National FASD's official statement on cutbacks for adoption and special guardianship support 15 April 2025  The reduction in funding for the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) will have a significant negative impact on assessments for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and the support provided to families affected by FASD and the 75% of children put up for adoption believed to have prenatal alcohol exposur…

Large cuts in government funding to support adopted and kinship children - Your Harlow

THE government has today announced a 40% cut in the amount that will be available per child from the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) this financial year – a Fund set up to provide specialist support for traumatised children and young adults. The ASGSF has helped create a better future for tens of thousands of young people over the last decade. The total pot remains the same as last year at £50m – a great relief to the thou…

40% Cut In Government Funding To Support Adopted And Kinship Children

The government has announced a 40% cut in the amount that will be available per child from the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) this financial year – a Fund set up to provide specialist support for traumatised children and young adults.

DfE makes huge cut to Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund payments

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The Department for Education (DfE) has made huge cuts in payments for families to resource therapy through the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF). Less than two weeks after confirming that the fund would continue – one day after it expired – the DfE has made four significant restrictions to the support each child or fami…

ReadyKids loses federal funding to support counseling for traumatized youth

ReadyKids, one of Charlottesville’s oldest social service nonprofits, recently lost $200,000 of federal funding that helped support counseling for traumatized children after Congress passed a stopgap spending bill that omitted money for several central Virginia projects.This might mean, in a worst-case scenario, that as many as 90 kids who were either victims of or witnesses to a crime would not get access to free trauma counseling through Ready…