The It's All Relative: Supporting Kinship Care Video Series
The It's All Relative: Supporting Kinship Care Video Series illustrates the complex dynamics of family relationships and caregiver support needs through real-life stories of kinship caregivers. The powerful stories demonstrate the important role that kinship caregivers play in the lives of children across the country and how strengthening these diverse families can help achieve positive outcomes for children.
Discussion Guides
The discussion guides include flexible menus of reflective activities and questions for individual coaching or to promote collaborative discussions. Templates for setting goals and planning action provide a pathway to move learning into practice. The discussion guides, designed to be used with the videos in this series, are tailored to support different audiences. We are pleased to offer social work, clinical psychology, counseling, and marriage and family therapy continuing education units (CEUs) with this learning experience. The CEU sponsor, R. Cassidy Seminars, maintains responsibility for its CEU program. For more information on the licensing program and requirements, please visit their website
- Discussion Guide for Supervisors provides activities to use in one-on-one coaching to enhance individual staff learning and in team meetings to build shared knowledge and find collaborative solutions. After completing activities, you may purchase CEUs at the R. Cassidy Seminars website
- Discussion Guide for Directors and Administrators provides activities to create a more supportive environment and develop an agency culture that responds to kinship caregivers’ unique needs. After completing activities, you may purchase CEUs at the R. Cassidy Seminars website
- Discussion Guide for Training Managers provides activities to integrate compelling stories and thought-provoking exercises into preservice training, supervisor training, and caregiver training. After completing activities, you may purchase CEUs at the R. Cassidy Seminars website