Training and events

Explore the practical aspects of contact with birth parents and family members.

Explore the emotional aspects of contact with birth parents and family members.

Learn about drug and alcohol misuse and how it can present itself, and impact children being cared for by kinship carers, as well as the wider kinship family.

Learn about life story work – what it is, when to consider it, techniques to carry it out (and get support), as well as how it can help kinship children build a positive self-image.

Learn about FASD, what it is, how it can present itself and how you can support children in your care who are showing FASD symptoms or are confirmed to have it.

Learn about different types of kinship care, what your arrangement means for what decisions you can make and what parental responsibility means.

This masterclass, hosted by clinical psychologist Dr Karen Treisman, explores behaviour as a way of communicating.

Learn about trauma and attachment and how they might affect the children you care for.

Learn the best way to handle conversations about your unique situation.

This free workshop will give you helpful information about financial support you may be able to get as a kinship carer.