Articles
Healing from Trauma/Neglect/Abuse
Supporting Your Young Person’s Brain Health and Growth
The Tween and Teen Brain Is Growing Rapidly! During adolescence, your young loved one is experiencing tremendous growth and change in their body and brain. Did you know that in the tween and teen years, the brain focuses on creating connections between its different...
6 Practical Ways to Encourage Attachment with Your Grandchild
The children who join your home because they cannot safely be raised by their parents, may have challenging behaviors that make it hard for you to feel connected to them. They might not feel like they can trust anyone right now, and that's scary for kids of any age....
How to Find a Therapist for Your Grandchild
Your grandchild (or cousin or nephew) has likely had some challenging experiences before coming to your home. Your safe, steady presence and firm, loving boundaries are helpful, but you sense that this child needs more help than you alone can give. It’s common for...
Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Alcohol and Drugs
No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.
Challenging Behaviors
Preparing Kids With Challenging Behaviors for Adulthood
Raising any child to become a productive, successful, happy adult is a challenge. This can be even harder when raising a relative’s child, especially when the child has challenging behaviors. These behaviors might include frequent emotional meltdowns, lying, and...
4 Tips for Teaching a Child to Self-Soothe
Often our kids come to live with us after they have experienced a stressful homelife. Children learn to regulate or soothe themselves by watching the adults in their life. Your grandchild’s parents may not have been able to model self-regulation because of their...
ADHD
No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.
Disrupting Birth Order
No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.
Helping A Child Heal from Sexual Abuse
No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.
School Issues for Foster & Kinship Kids
No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.
Technology/Internet and Our Kids
No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.
Self-Care for Kinship and Foster Parents
No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.
Relationship with Child’s Parent
No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.
Working Together For the Good of the Child In Your Care
No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.
Phone
This website was supported with funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families’ Children’s Bureau through the Improving Child Welfare Through Investing in Family grant #HHS-2021-ACF-ACYF-CW-1921. The purpose of this grant is to provide an array of kinship preparation services and ongoing kinship supports, and provide shared parenting to build trusting relationships between all out-of-home caregivers and parents of children/youth in foster care to ensure parents and families remain actively involved in normal child-rearing activities.
This website is supported by Grant Number # HHS-2021-ACF-ACYF-CW-1921 from the Children’s Bureau within the Administration for Children and Families, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Neither the Administration for Children and Families nor any of its components operate, control, are responsible for, or necessarily endorse this website (including, without limitation, its content, technical infrastructure, and policies, and any services or tools provided). The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Administration for Children and Families and the Children’s Bureau.