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Why Your Grandchild Needs Mentors

Raising a grandchild or another young relative often means you may need additional creative ways to set them on a path to successful adulthood. When a child has experienced the trauma of being separated from their parents -- due to substance use, unstable housing, or...

Life Skills to Build Capable Young Adults

When you're raising a grandchild, niece, nephew, or other young family members, you're not just stepping in — you're standing in the gap. Many of these kids carry heavy stories: trauma, abuse, family separation, prenatal substance exposure and more. You hold dear the...

Taking Care of Your Grandchild’s Mental and Emotional Wellbeing

Raising your grandchild, niece, nephew, or other young relative can be a blessing. However, it can also be challenging to navigate. When a child lives apart from their parent—especially due to addiction or substance use—it can create deep emotional stress for everyone...

Healing from Trauma/Neglect/Abuse

Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Alcohol and Drugs

Helping Your Grandchild Avoid Substance Abuse

Helping Your Grandchild Avoid Substance Abuse

The time your grandchild spends in your care, in the nurturing, stable environment of your home, can be a powerful force that protects them from risky behaviors like underage drinking or drug use. You know that you cannot erase the experiences this child had before...

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Caring For Prenatally Exposed Babies

Caring For Prenatally Exposed Babies

Did you know that 10-11% of babies born in the US have been exposed to alcohol, drugs, or both before birth? The percentage is even higher for kids who are being raised by their grandparents or other relatives. And remember that drug exposure can include both legal...

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Challenging Behaviors

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

Tips to Help Grandparents Raising Grandchildren

Tips to Help Grandparents Raising Grandchildren

When you are a grandparent suddenly raising your grandchildren, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the changes and needs you must consider. You might also be an aunt or family friend raising young children from your extended family or tribal community. Many factors can...

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Do You Have A Supportive Safety Net?

Do You Have A Supportive Safety Net?

Are you a grandmother or aunt raising a loved one's child? Do you have several kids regularly in and out of your home for the love, nurture, and stability you offer? Partnering with others in your community to care for these young people is a privilege and honor....

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Stop and Assess: How are YOU Doing?

Stop and Assess: How are YOU Doing?

Caring for a relative's child, whether for a long weekend or an extended season, can be rewarding and fulfilling. However, suppose you aren't used to supporting a child impacted by loss, neglect, or prenatal substance exposure. In that case, it can also be bewildering...

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Relationship with Child’s Parent

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Working Together For the Good of the Child In Your Care

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.

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