Session Handout:
Supporting Grandparents Raising Grandkids and Kin: Enhancing Stability Through Tailored Support
Download the One Pager
TCARE helps families and caregivers strengthen protective factors, address challenges early, provide stability and support safe, connected care.”
TCARE partners with child welfare leaders to support prevention, preservation, and reunification efforts by helping government agencies, Medicaid Managed Care Organizations, and private child welfare providers
• Identify caregiver strain early
• Strengthen caregvier protective factors
• Reduce placement disruption
• Support biological, foster, and kinship families
• Improve placement stability outcomes
Our structured model has been applied across diverse caregiving populations, including grandparents and other kin caregivers raising grandchildren and other family members, parents caring for children with disabilities/special health needs, and others involved in the child welfare space with robust outcomes through our "caring for the caregiver" approach.
.jpeg)

Caring for the Caregivers: Grandparents Raising Grandkids
Monday, April 20, 2026 | 3:30 pm – 4:45 pm
Workshops C | Room C12
This session explores lessons learned from supporting grandparents raising grandchildren and examines how those strategies can inform broader caregiver support within child welfare systems. Presenters will share data, trends, and practical applications that strengthen collaboration between providers and public agencies.
Presenters:
Katie Olse, Sellers Dorsey
Cheryl Fisher, Centene Corporation
Chelsea Gilchrist, TCARE