Explore the emotional aspects of contact with birth parents and family members.
Training and events
Kinship carers tell us their journey can be overwhelming and confusing. To help you navigate this complex system, we run workshops and events both online and in-person. Explore our events below and to stay up to date with new events, join our community.
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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.
Join our Bristol roadshow to connect with other carers, share experiences and get vital information to help you make the right choices for you.
Learn about ways you might encounter challenging behaviour in children you’re caring for, and how to deal with it sensitively but decisively.
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 the support available for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).
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 trauma and attachment and how they might affect the children you care for.
This free workshop will give you helpful information about financial support you may be able to get as a kinship carer.
Learn how to approach online safety with children in kinship care. This includes helping them navigate the internet, learning about typical use and basic terms/concepts as well as how to address safeguarding concerns – even when less computer comfortable.