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Hundreds of families in Oregon find themselves caring for their relatives’ children. Sometimes families need help to meet these children’s needs. Your willingness to care for a relative child is a gift — to the child and to their parents. Our hope is that the information on resources, benefits and services in this guide can help you take care of a relative child when his or her parents are unable to do so. This publication resulted from a collaboration between several partners over the years that has included the Oregon State University Extension Family and Community Development Program, Oregon Department of Human Services, AARP and Oregon Post Adoption Resource Center. A grant given in 2003 by the Brookdale Foundation’s Relatives as Parents Program (RAPP) to Oregon State University’s Extension Family and Community Development Program was the impetus for creating both a legal guide and a resource guide on caring for relative children. The current version was updated as part of the Oregon Kinship Navigator program, operated by Greater Oregon Behavioral Health Inc.