·State program
Kinship Care In Vermont
Kinship Care In Vermont provides monthly cash assistance to relatives and friends caring for children, with support for kinship caregivers to become licensed foster families or conditional custodians.
What you get
Information, Services, as recorded:
- Reach Up Child Only: monthly cash assistance called a caretaker benefit, plus Medicaid; DCF-custody placements: caregiver receives a foster care reimbursement for each child placed with them and each child is eligible for Medicaid; conditional custody (CCO): child may be eligible for a Child-Only Reach Up Grant, which also makes the child eligible for Medicaid
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 Vermont?
Residency is usually the first thing a program checks.
- 02
Does your relationship to the person — parent, child, sibling, grandparent, other relative, or non relative — count for this program?
- 03
Is the person receiving care in the covered age range (null–18)?
- 04
Does the VA disability rating meet the program’s minimum (our record lists null%)?
- 05
Do the work hours meet the minimum (our record lists null hours)?
- 06
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.
- 07
What documents do you need from us to start an application?
- 08
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.
Age of the person receiving care
“Be under 18 (with a few exceptions*)”
dcf.vermont.gov →Minimum VA disability rating
Minimum VA disability rating: null%.
Work hours
Minimum work hours: null.
Relationship to the person receiving care
“Care for the child of a relative or friend — for a short while or a longer period.”
dcf.vermont.gov →
How to apply
- 01
Reach Up Child Only: apply electronically by downloading the fillable application, completing and signing it, and uploading it with supporting documents, or by paper by calling 1-800-479-6151 to request the application, completing it, and mailing or dropping it off at a district office