Program Language: Laotian

The Kinship Navigator Program - Washington State is a statewide program that includes all 39 counties and 7 tribes. The program provides a human services worker known as a Kinship Navigator that offers services to kinship care families in a single or multicounty service area or for one of seven tribes. The role of the Kinship Navigator is to connect grandparents and relatives who are raising children with community resources, such as health, financial, legal services, support groups, training, and emergency funds. Since many kinship care families are unaware of services for which they are entitled, Kinship Navigators also explain how to apply for federal and state benefits. The Kinship Navigator services help kinship care families establish or maintain greater self-sufficiency and long-term stability needed to keep their children in their family of origin.