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5 Tips to Help Your Family Communicate Better
Improving Your Family’s Communication is an Investment How we communicate with our family powerfully affects how we feel about ourselves. Before your grandchild (or niece or cousin) came to you, they probably witnessed unhealthy communication patterns. It's crucial...
7 Protective Factors to Help a Child Overcome Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
When you are helping to raise a child from your family or tribal community, it will help you to learn about the impact of trauma on a child’s developing brain. What you learn might feel overwhelming and troubling when you think about the precious child you have...
Practical Ways to Welcome Your Grandchild’s Friends In Your Home
Isolation is one of the most significant risk factors today’s teens face. Even though young adults are more “connected” than ever, thanks to their phones and iPads, they also report record levels of loneliness. They often need solid in-person connections to sustain...
Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Alcohol and Drugs
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Challenging Behaviors
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ADHD
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Disrupting Birth Order
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Helping A Child Heal from Sexual Abuse
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School Issues for Foster & Kinship Kids
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Technology/Internet and Our Kids
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Self-Care for Kinship and Foster Parents
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Relationship with Child’s Parent
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Working Together For the Good of the Child In Your Care
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