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About kinship kollective
Our Initiative
Kinship Kollective is a trauma-informed, community-rooted program serving grandparents, relatives, and kinship caregivers raising children impacted by addiction, incarceration, domestic violence, or family crisis. Founded on lived experience and professional insight, our work centers around stabilizing families, restoring hope, and building bridges between isolated caregivers and the systems they often face alone.
We operate a dynamic wraparound model that includes caregiver coaching, legal navigation, transportation support, child behavior advocacy, and after-school youth enrichment rooted in our Raising Royalty curriculum. Our programs are offered in our own center, through mobile outreach, and in partnership with courts, shelters, schools, and youth service agencies across Western Massachusetts.
Our Approach
We believe support must be immediate, relational, and relevant. Kinship Kollective walks with families through the real moments—when a grandparent gets a call from school and doesn’t know what to do, when a child acts out from trauma, when a caregiver needs a ride to court, or just someone to talk to. We meet people where they are, both physically and emotionally, and respond with tools that make a difference. While caregivers gather to process and learn, their youth participate in therapeutic workshops that teach leadership, emotional control, identity, and purpose. Both generations are served, strengthened,
Our Services
Kinship Kollective Core Services
Kinship Kollective delivers responsive, relationship-based services designed to ease the burden of kinship caregiving and build bridges between generations.
We serve both the caregiver and the child in a coordinated, trauma-informed model that meets families where they are.
– Legal and court system navigation for guardianship, custody, DCF involvement, and probate support
– Referrals to legal aid, housing resources, SNAP, WIC, and child-only benefits
– One-on-one kinship coaching to manage grief, parenting stress, and family trauma
– On-call support for school-based issues or behavioral incidents, including in-person advocacy
– Transportation coordination for court appearances, school meetings, or wellness needs (when funding allows)
– Weekly caregiver roundtables for peer support, digital literacy, and skill-building
– Structured after-school drop-in programming for youth, with Raising Royalty curriculum (emotions, identity, puberty, purpose, online safety, addiction awareness)
– Therapeutic enrichment activities including journaling, art, music, and movement
– Warm meals provided to families during weekly sessions
– Access to hygiene supplies, emergency clothing, school supplies, and grocery staples through our community closet and pantry
– Monthly Kinship Café dinners to strengthen intergenerational connection and reduce isolation
– Mobile outreach to shelters, schools, and homes for hard-to-reach families
– Digital learning support, including tablets, internet access, and caregiver tech training
– Educational planning, GED enrollment, online high school support, and tutoring
– Postsecondary and career navigation for teens, including Job Corps, apprenticeships, and employment readiness