Pat's Story
Spotlights how agency support and resources helped one kinship family identify creative solutions to challenges they faced. In this video, a parent reflects on her family's experience with the kinship program and how it enabled her to connect and collaborate with her kinship son's biological family.
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This video is a part of the It's All Relative: Supporting Kinship Connections Video Series. It spotlights how agency support and resources helped one kinship family identify creative solutions to challenges they faced. In this video, a parent reflects on her family’s experience with the kinship program and how it enabled her to connect and collaborate with her kinship son’s biological family.
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). Pat's Story. Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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