·State program
Kinship Guardianship Assistance
Kinship Guardianship Assistance provides monthly payments and legal expense assistance to relatives and non-relatives caring for children after six months of placement in their home.
What you get
Information, Services, as recorded:
- Assistance payments cannot exceed the foster care maintenance payment that would have been paid if the child remained in foster care; plus non-recurring legal guardianship expenses up to $2000 (Title IV-E children) or $400 (all other children)
Questions that decide eligibility
GiveCare prepares the questions; the program makes the decision. Bring these to the call or the application:
- 01
Does the person receiving care live in Rhode Island?
Residency is usually the first thing a program checks.
- 02
Does your relationship to the person — other relative or non relative — count for this program?
- 03
Does the VA disability rating meet the program’s minimum (our record lists null%)?
- 04
Do the work hours meet the minimum (our record lists null hours)?
- 05
Is there a caregiver-specific department, coordinator, or support line? Ask for it by name.
Many agencies have one that isn’t advertised on the website.
- 06
What documents do you need from us to start an application?
- 07
Is there a waitlist right now, and how long is it?
Who qualifies, in the source’s words
Where our record has a direct quote from the official source, here it is — otherwise, this is our best reading of the rule.
Minimum VA disability rating
Minimum VA disability rating: null%.
Work hours
Minimum work hours: null.
Relationship to the person receiving care
“means an individual who is related to the child by blood, marriage or adoption or an individual who is part of the family support system such as a non-related godparent, present or former caretaker, close family friend, neighbor, clergy or other adult who has a close and caring relationship with the child.”
datadcyf.ri.gov →State residency
“That the agreement remains in effect without regard to the state residency of the legal guardian.”
datadcyf.ri.gov →
How to apply
- 01
Primary service worker and supervisor confer that the child meets eligibility criteria; if guardianship assistance is requested, the worker completes the Guardianship Assistance Agreement (DCYF #031) and submits it to the Permanency Subsidy Coordinator for review, negotiation, and approval