Kinship Care

NYAP's Kinship Care program provides kinship families with a centralized service point of entry which ensures that they are linked with and receive services that promote safety, permanency, and the well-being of children and youth and prevent children and youth from entering the child welfare system.

Through effective service delivery and treatment, we provide support to relative and non-relative caregivers by helping families access necessary services, expand family support systems, educate caregivers on the issues many of the children and youth are experiencing, assist children and youth in overcoming their own personal obstacles, and ultimately reduce stress to promote family stability.

NYAP’s Kinship program provides the services required to maintain a stable home within kinship families so children and youth have the opportunity to be raised by a kinship caregiver they know. Services offered to children, youth, and families include advocacy, service coordination. and support for families.  Kinship Care services are available throughout the Columbus Ohio area as a component of the Care Management program.

We’re here for our kinship families, foster parents, youth, and families, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  You can call us anytime at 1-877-NYAP-CAN (1.877.692.7226) if you need support, information, or guidance.

It is NYAP's vision that by providing kinship families with needed services, we will reduce the risk of abuse and neglect, family dysfunction, and family violence all of which are factors documented to increase the risk of drug abuse, teen pregnancy, school failure, and violence.  The focus on empowering and strengthening kinship families so that they can live independently free from public support systems and achieve independence is the underlying long-term goal of the program.

Services Include

  • Individual and family assessments.

  • Family and individual supportive counseling.

  • In home and group parenting education.

  • Youth and caregiver support and peer groups.

  • Caregiver skill building.

  • Respite services.

  • Legal assistance and referrals.

  • Linkage to career counseling and public benefit assistance.

  • Educational and vocational advocacy and support.

  • Addiction education.

  • Medical and health awareness and navigation.

  • Emergency and crisis support.