BOISE, Idaho, July 13 -- Boise State University issued the following news release:
Idaho Caregiver Alliance Program Manager Sheila Weaver recently appeared on Boise State Public Radio's Idaho Matters podcast. Weaver discussed the important work of kinship caregivers and Idaho's statewide kinship plan alongside Keith Mason, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Idaho, and Tammy Creswell, an Idaho kinship caregiver who is raising her granddaughter.
When parents are no longer able to care for their children, kinship caregivers -grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings and other family members - often step in. In Idaho, more than 10,000 children are raised by their grandparents and more than 40,000 children live in households with relati...