Morris and Michelle's Story

Demonstrates the dedication and flexibility needed when providing kinship care in order to navigate visitation schedules, foster care certification processes, and permanency proceedings.

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 demonstrates the dedication and flexibility needed when providing kinship care in order to navigate things like visitation schedules, foster care certification processes, and permanency proceedings. In this video, kinship parents discuss coming from an empty nest and readjusting to the parenting role, the valuable assistance they received in the process of becoming certified foster parents, and the necessity of respite provided by family and friends.

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Suggested Citation

Capacity Building Center for States (2018). Morris and Michelle'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