(1) The Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall create a centralized statewide service program that provides information and referrals through a statewide toll-free telephone number to grandparents and other caregivers who are caring for minors who are not their biological children.
(2) The program shall provide information on a wide variety of services, including but not limited to:
(a) Kentucky Transitional Assistance Program;
(b) Health care and services, including the Kentucky Children’s Health Insurance
Program;
(c) Educational services; (d) Child care;
(e) Child support; (f) Support groups;
(g) Housing assistance; (h) Legal services; and
(i) Respite care for low-income kinship or fictive kin caregivers.
As used in this paragraph, “fictive kin” has the same meaning as in KRS § 600.020. (3) The cabinet may coordinate this program with the KyCARES Program.
(4) This program shall be known as the KinCare Support Program.
Effective: June 27, 2019
History: Amended 2019 Ky. Acts ch. 73, sec. 2, effective June 27, 2019. — Amended
2014 Ky. Acts ch. 69, sec. 1, effective July 15, 2014. — Created 2006 Ky. Acts ch.
198, sec. 1, effective July 12, 2006.