Expressing support for the designation of September 2025 as "National Kinship Care Month".

Kinship care is the focus of a House resolution supporting designation of September 2025 as National Kinship Care Month and summarizing findings about scope, benefits, and needs. The resolution describes kinship care as full-time care by relatives or family-like caregivers, notes more than 2.5 million children in kinship arrangements including about 131,490 in formal kinship foster care and over 2.7 million in informal kinship care, highlights drivers such as parental death, substance use, disability, and incarceration, documents racial disparities in who provides and receives kinship care, praises kinship benefits like stability and reduced trauma, and calls for better supports including kinship navigator programs. *The resolution cites that kinship caregiving saves taxpayers more than $4.0 billion annually.*