Thursday, January 23, 2025
1 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. Eastern time
Webinar on Zoom
Join us for a free webinar to explore the importance of prioritizing kinship care and to learn strategies and tools for supporting kinship providers.
Learning objectives
- Understand the benefits of supporting and prioritizing relatives and fictive kin as first placements and permanency options, utilizing a customer service approach
- Identify barriers that relatives and fictive kin providers experience in the processes for placement consideration, foster care/kinship licensing, fostering and adopting
- Recognize caregiver trauma and burnout and the impact it can have on placement stability for relatives and fictive kin providers
- Learn strategies and tools for supporting kinship providers
- Hear from Ali Caliendo of Foster Kinship about her organization’s evidence-based Kinship Navigator Model and lessons learned in training, licensing, and supporting kinship providers
- Hear from Dawn Barton of South Carolina Department of Social Services about the agency’s work with this model and its efforts to prioritize kin-first placements
Presenters
Katie Amelse
National Child Welfare Advisor
National Center for Diligent Recruitment
Guest speakers
Ali Caliendo
Executive Director
Foster Kinship
Dawn Barton
Director of Permanency Management
South Carolina Department of Social Services
Audience
This webinar is open to all audiences. This webinar will be especially helpful for child welfare professionals involved in recruitment, support, and retention of adoptive, foster, and kinship families, as well as administrators who shape child welfare policies, procedures, and implementation.
The webinar may also be of interest to private agencies and nonprofit organizations that partner with child welfare systems on diligent recruitment work.