Angela's Story

Highlights the role agency resources and family support can play in helping kinship families face challenges. This video discusses an aunt's decision to become a full-time caregiver for her niece and her niece's daughter, and the importance home visits played in the transition.

Publication year: 2018

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Capacity Building Center for States

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This video is a part of the It's All Relative: Supporting Kinship Connections Video Series. It highlights the role agency resources and family support can play in helping kinship families face challenges. This video discusses an aunt’s decision to become a full-time caregiver for her niece and her niece’s daughter, and the importance home visits played in the transition.

Use the activities and action-planning templates in the It's All Relative: Supporting Kinship Care Discussion Guides with this story to help your staff discover how to better understand, assess, and support kinship caregivers.

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Suggested Citation

Capacity Building Center for States (2018). Angela's Story. Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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Jen's Story

Highlights the significant impact agency staff have on the kinship and foster parent experience and in helping families serve as a resource for the birth families of the children in their care. This video presents one family's story of becoming a kinship resource and how support from their foster care specialist guided their decision.

Publication Year 2018