Helping and Lending Outreach Support (HALOS)

Kinship programs the halos kinship care program provides direct services to families in which a grandparent, other relative, or someone close to a child steps in to raise them when a parent cannot do so safely. In 2007, halos began the first kinship care program in south carolina, based on evidence of need and the lack of resources for this large and growing population of families. Halos offers a range of opportunities for caregivers to gain Support, meet critical needs, and connect with their peers and community. The main component of the program is a service referred to as navigation, which is the label commonly used to define programs (cont. On sch. O)

Research and evaluation halos, with the Support of the sc department of social services and the duke endowment, runs multi-year research and evaluation projects to build out the evidence base for kinship services. In partnership with child trends, efforts currently focus on kinship navigation models and the effectivness of the success coach framework for kinship caregivers.