The Kinship Navigator services
help kinship care families establish or maintain greater self - sufficiency and long - term stability needed to keep their children out of foster care.
Help kinship care families establish or maintain greater self - sufficiency and long - term stability needed to keep their children out of foster care
Not exact matches
The program's goal of
helping post-adoptive and post-guardianship
families face the unique challenges following an adoption or guardianship are in perfect alignment with the Coalition's vision; that no foster, adoptive or
kinship care family in New York State will feel alone or unsupported and that all such
families will have the tools, support and community they need to nurture their children and be role models for others.
Ohio Resource Guide for Relatives
Caring for Children (PDF - 1,802 KB) Ohio Department of Job and
Family Services (2017)
Helps kinship caregivers in Ohio find assistance with issues like expenses, medical services, education, legal services, and more.
Taking
Care of Yourself: Tips for Kinship Care Providers (PDF - 123 KB) Center for the Study of Social Policy (2015) Describes the importance of self - care when raising a relative's children and provides a tool to help reflect on the caregiving experience, identify strengths, learn how traumatic experiences may impact the family, and respond in a supportive
Care of Yourself: Tips for
Kinship Care Providers (PDF - 123 KB) Center for the Study of Social Policy (2015) Describes the importance of self - care when raising a relative's children and provides a tool to help reflect on the caregiving experience, identify strengths, learn how traumatic experiences may impact the family, and respond in a supportive
Care Providers (PDF - 123 KB) Center for the Study of Social Policy (2015) Describes the importance of self -
care when raising a relative's children and provides a tool to help reflect on the caregiving experience, identify strengths, learn how traumatic experiences may impact the family, and respond in a supportive
care when raising a relative's children and provides a tool to
help reflect on the caregiving experience, identify strengths, learn how traumatic experiences may impact the
family, and respond in a supportive way.
Revitalizing Recruitment: Practical Strategies for Finding and Keeping Foster, Adoptive, and
Kinship Homes (PDF - 10,107 KB) New York State Office of Children and
Family Services (2015)
Helps professionals navigate the challenges of finding foster and adoptive
families who are equipped to meet the needs of children and youth entering foster
care.
Kinship Care and Communication: Family Portraits Project «Helping Teens to Tell Their Stories» (PDF - 803 KB) Dunifon & DiSciullo (2011) Cornell University Department of Policy Analysis and Management Discusses a project that developed strategies to support the development of positive communication and strengthen family dynamics to promote open communication between grandparents and teens in kinship plac
Kinship Care and Communication:
Family Portraits Project «Helping Teens to Tell Their Stories» (PDF - 803 KB) Dunifon & DiSciullo (2011) Cornell University Department of Policy Analysis and Management Discusses a project that developed strategies to support the development of positive communication and strengthen family dynamics to promote open communication between grandparents and teens in kinship place
Family Portraits Project «
Helping Teens to Tell Their Stories» (PDF - 803 KB) Dunifon & DiSciullo (2011) Cornell University Department of Policy Analysis and Management Discusses a project that developed strategies to support the development of positive communication and strengthen
family dynamics to promote open communication between grandparents and teens in kinship place
family dynamics to promote open communication between grandparents and teens in
kinship plac
kinship placements.
Whether you're looking for a personal challenge or want to raise awareness of
kinship care, your fundraising can
help us to keep more
families together.
Revitalizing Recruitment: Practical Strategies for Finding and Keeping Foster, Adoptive, and
Kinship Homes (PDF - 10,107 KB) New York State Office of Children and
Family Services (2015)
Helps professionals navigate the challenges of finding foster and adoptive
families equipped to meet the needs of children and youth entering foster
care.
Kinship Care (PDF - 55 KB) National Resource Center for Family - Centered Practice & Permanency Planning (2009) Presents a toolkit to help professionals find permanent kinship placements for children in the child welfare
Kinship Care (PDF - 55 KB) National Resource Center for
Family - Centered Practice & Permanency Planning (2009) Presents a toolkit to
help professionals find permanent
kinship placements for children in the child welfare
kinship placements for children in the child welfare system.
Bikers Against Child Abuse Children's Home Society of California CommuniCare Health
Care Elica Health Centers Empower Yolo; Yolo Center for
Families Family Hui First 5 Yolo Foster &
Kinship Care Education
Help Me Grow RISE, Inc..
By sharing the video on Facebook and Twitter, you can
help spread the word about
kinship care families and raise awareness of their need for better support.
Kinship Placements: An Integrative Approach Crittenden & Farnfeld (2008) In Foster Care Therapist Handbook: Relational Approaches to the Children and Their Families View Abstract Describes kinship care as an important alternative to standard foster care and offers guidelines to help case managers make decisions involving relative and nonrelative foster care to help protect children and promote the development of close familial conne
Kinship Placements: An Integrative Approach Crittenden & Farnfeld (2008) In Foster
Care Therapist Handbook: Relational Approaches to the Children and Their Families View Abstract Describes kinship care as an important alternative to standard foster care and offers guidelines to help case managers make decisions involving relative and nonrelative foster care to help protect children and promote the development of close familial connecti
Care Therapist Handbook: Relational Approaches to the Children and Their
Families View Abstract Describes
kinship care as an important alternative to standard foster care and offers guidelines to help case managers make decisions involving relative and nonrelative foster care to help protect children and promote the development of close familial conne
kinship care as an important alternative to standard foster care and offers guidelines to help case managers make decisions involving relative and nonrelative foster care to help protect children and promote the development of close familial connecti
care as an important alternative to standard foster
care and offers guidelines to help case managers make decisions involving relative and nonrelative foster care to help protect children and promote the development of close familial connecti
care and offers guidelines to
help case managers make decisions involving relative and nonrelative foster
care to help protect children and promote the development of close familial connecti
care to
help protect children and promote the development of close familial connections.
Placement Stability and Permanency National Resource Center for Diligent Recruitment at AdoptUSKids Offers ideas from the field and tools and resources that provide strategies and information related to child - specific recruitment that can
help child welfare professionals recruit foster, adoptive, and
kinship families for specific children and youth in
care.
Creative Therapies for Complex Trauma
Helping Children and
Families in Foster
Care,
Kinship Care or Adoption
Helping Children in Foster
Care Successfully Transition Into Child
Care HealthyChildren.org (2017) Explores the unique needs of foster children who have often been exposed to
family issues such as drug use, mental health problems, violence, or criminal activity and gives advice to
kinship caretakers or foster parents on how to deal with these challenges.
«This is a measure that the
Kinship Care Alliance strongly campaigned for when the Welfare Reform Act was going though Parliament, with the
help of
family and friends carers, MPs and Peers across political parties.
Foster carers and
kinship carers provide a temporary
caring home for a child or young person while their parents or caregivers and
family members receive support to
help them work out difficulties.
CRC
helped promote the enactment of the new «
kinship care» law, which makes it easier for grandparents and other
family members to provide for children when the parents delegate such authority, or are unable to perform a parenting role.
Help for those raising their extended
family Albany Times Union - Albany, New York, USA The
Kinship Care Program focuses on supporting relatives (often grandparents) who are raising children.
We also offer support groups, education and clinical support for
kinship families (relatives raising related minors), such as grandparents raising grandchildren, to
help them provide the best possible
care.
This factsheet is designed to
help kinship caregivers — including grandparents, aunts and uncles, other relatives, and
family friends
caring for children — work effectively with the child welfare system.
Sign up to our support network to find out about events in your area, keep up to date with what's going on in the world of
kinship care and
help us campaign for a fairer deal for grandparents,
family members and friends raising children.
There are a range of programs, strategies and system reform approaches intended to prevent children from being abused or neglected or involved in the child welfare system, and to
help keep children who have been abused or neglected safely with their own
families or in other permanent
families, through
kinship care or adoption, and on a path to productive adulthood.
The
Family First Act addresses the opioid epidemic, invests in prevention to help eliminate the need for family separation, ensures quality for group foster care settings, improves services for older youth, and better supports kinship fam
Family First Act addresses the opioid epidemic, invests in prevention to
help eliminate the need for
family separation, ensures quality for group foster care settings, improves services for older youth, and better supports kinship fam
family separation, ensures quality for group foster
care settings, improves services for older youth, and better supports
kinship families.