Getting Started as a Relative or Kinship Caregiver
It can be very distressing and confusing to learn that a child you are related to has entered foster care due to a situation of abuse or neglect in their […]
Navigating Family Relationships as a Relative Caregiver
Anytime a new person joins a household, there will be changes in the family dynamic. These changes can be positive and can enrich the relationships between all involved, but there […]
The Changing Role of Caregivers: Grandparents
Many children that come into care are cared for by grandparents or other relatives. This can have a lot of mixed feelings for the relative caregiver and for the child […]
The Emotional Journey of Relative Caregiving
Many relative caregivers have said they just didn’t know how hard everything would be until the day came when they realized that they were now the “parent” to their relative’s […]
Sometimes It’s Grandmas and Grandpas Not Mommies and Daddies
Written from a child’s point of view, this touching picture book centers around a nontraditional family of grandparents raising their grandchild. Sometimes It’s Grandmas and Grandpas [...]
Kinship Care: Birth Mothers Speak Out
About the DVD This presentation was recorded at the Child Welfare League of America’s Fourth National Kinship Care Conference. It is one in a 3-part series of Kinship Care topics […]
