Our Webinar on Trainings for Kinship Caregivers and Professionals

The Casey Foun­da­tion host­ed ​“Kin­ship Care: What Child Wel­fare Pro­fes­sion­als and Kin Care­givers Need to Know,” a webi­nar for care­givers and the pro­fes­sion­als who work with them. Tracey Feild, direc­tor of the Foundation’s Child Wel­fare Strat­e­gy Group, and Joe Crum­b­ley, a respect­ed ther­a­pist, train­er and kin­ship expert, cohost­ed the session.

Watch the webinar

The webi­nar high­lights two Casey-spon­sored train­ing series:

• “Cop­ing With the Unique Chal­lenges of Kin­ship Care,” a four-part series, and
• “Engag­ing Kin­ship Care­givers: Man­ag­ing Risk Fac­tors in Kin­ship Care,” a five-part series

It also shares infor­ma­tion on com­pan­ion dis­cus­sion guides that help view­ers bet­ter under­stand kin­ship care and how it is dif­fers from non­rel­a­tive fos­ter care.

“More than 2.7 mil­lion chil­dren live with grand­par­ents or oth­er rel­a­tives today,” Feild says. ​“There­fore, it’s impor­tant to talk about ways kin care­givers can man­age the con­flict­ing emo­tions that sur­face when rais­ing chil­dren whose par­ents are unable to do so.”

Pre­sen­ta­tion Slides From the Kin­ship Webinar