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Provides interactive, educational workshops to strengthen the knowledge and skills of caregivers. Offers kinship mentoring and other specialized assistance as needed.
Provides interactive, educational workshops to strengthen the knowledge and skills of caregivers. Workshops cover topics like, How to be an Advocate for your child, Self-Care for the Caregiver, Understanding Online Learning, Urgent Help for Students at Home.
Kinship Peer Mentors:
Provides support for Native American and African American kinship caregivers in the early stages of the care of relatives' children, and especially for those informal caregivers not involved through a system such as child welfare.
- Kinship Mentoring provides services and supports to access community resources for a 90-day period, then assists in transitions to other services.
- Specialized funds provide extra help and specialized support for eligible kinship caregivers. (55+, King County, kinship caregivers, specialized ethnic populations).
Categories
Kinship Care
Kinship Navigator Programs
Addresses the needs of children, parents, and families by offering support groups, education, as well as special programs for foster youth and teens.
Addresses the needs of children, parents, and families by offering support groups, education, as well as special programs for foster youth and teens.
- Parent Support Classes: offering support groups and classes for parents and families to help educate and support as they're raising their children. Includes: 7 to 10-week Parenting Skills Classes for parents/caregivers of children, 0-18 years of age; and 4-hour Co-Parenting Seminars required by the courts to support parents who are going through divorce or separation and have minor children.
- Kinship Navigator: provides services to enhance the ability of relatives to provide safe, stable, and a nurturing environment for the children in their care. Services include legal referral regarding custody, financial assistance to reach basic needs, parent education & training, support group, assistance in applying for federal and state subsidies, help with child care, help in navigating through the education system, and information on medical dental, and mental health services.
- Foster Teen Programs: assists youth in acquiring the skills they need in order to live and function effectively on their own. These include interpersonal skills, money management, housing, work and vocational skills.
Categories
Kinship Navigator Programs
Parenting Skills Classes
Life Skills Education
Housing Search Assistance
Court Ordered Parenting Programs
Kinship Care
Organizational Advocacy Program Development
Financial Literacy Training
Provides monthly structured discussion groups, socialization opportunities, and educational programming about common issues for grandfamilies supporting relative children of all ages, abilities, and identities with connections to community resources.
Provides monthly structured discussion groups, socialization opportunities, and educational programming about common issues for grandfamilies, which includes strategies for supporting relative children of all ages, abilities, and identities, specialized information and referral services with connections to community resources.
Categories
Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
Kinship Navigator Programs
Parenting Skills Classes