Equipping Kinship Caregivers

When young peo­ple must enter fos­ter care, kin­ship place­ments with rel­a­tives or close fam­i­ly friends can pro­vide a sense of con­ti­nu­ity: con­nec­tions to his­to­ry, cul­ture, and com­mu­ni­ty. While these place­ments offer many ben­e­fits, they come with unique chal­lenges as care­givers quick­ly assume new par­ent­ing duties, nav­i­gat­ing rela­tion­ships with the chil­dren in their care and birth par­ents while guid­ing these chil­dren through the pain of separation.

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