What’s in Store for Kinship Care in Michigan?

Speaking for Kids Host Matt Gillard from Michigan’s Children explores an

important family issue that’s thankfully gaining greater attention at the Capitol

lately. With 54,000 children living in kinship care families in Michigan, Matt

discusses the issue of formal and informal kinship care arrangements with two

top advocates, David Berns and Erin Peets. Both serve as members of the

Michigan Kinship Care Coalition and the Kinship Advisory Council of the Michigan

Department of Health and Human Services. David Berns, now retired was most

recently the Director of the Department of Human Services for the District of

Columbia. He was also the Director of the Office of Children’s Services for the

Michigan Department of Health and Human Services agency. There,

was that he realized that kinship c ...