Resource Library

Explains the QIC-AG Permanency Continuum Framework, which is designed to promote placement stability for children and adoptive families.

Designed for Supervisors to spark conversations and critical thinking among agency staff. Supervisors can use this resource for one-on-one coaching to enhance individual staff learning and in group supervision and team meetings to build shared knowledge and find collaborative solutions.

Highlights the role agency resources and family support can play in heloing kinship families face challenges. This video discusses an aunt’s decision to become a full-time caregiver for her niece and her niece’s daughter, and the importance home visits played in the transition.

Emphasizes the importance of community and caseworker support in having the resources needed to promote family well-being, particularly when caring for children with special needs. This video highlights the perspective of a kinship caregiver who is an Athabaskan native teaching her grandchildren the Navajo culture and community traditions and passing down her grandparents’ stories.

Addresses the importance of being open to agency support and resources and the necessity of self-care in working through family traditions and meeting needs. In this video, a kinship parent caring for her niece’s children reflects on her family’s strategies for raising children who have experienced trauma and the resources that enabled them to become effective kinship caregivers.

Highlights the significant impact agency staffhave on the kinship and foster parent experience and in helping families serve as a resource for the birth families of the children in their care. This video presents one family’s story of becoming a kinship resource and how support from their foster care specialist guided their decision.

Demontrates the benefits and challenges of serving as a kinship/foster parent and supporting and collaborating with children’s biological parents. This video highlights one caregiver’s decision to foster and adopt her son and become a kinship caregiver to his younger siblings. She discusses how she maintained a close, supportive relationship with their biological mother and how they ultimately created a united, blended family.

Demonstrates the life adjustments and rewards of becoming a kinship caregiver. In this video, a caregiver shares his story of what motivated him to become a kinship parent. He discusses how caring for his sister’s children and a child with special needs, as well as managing a household, have changed his life and what encourages him to continue.

Addresses the critical importance of having a strong support network to face the challenges of becoming a kinship resoure and caring for children who have experienced trauma. This video highlights one mother’s perspective on making the decision to become a kinship parent and the rewards brought by providing care for her kinship daughters.

Highlights one foster and adoptive mother’s experience becoming a kinship caregiver for her own grandson and the impact of agency support. In this video, she discusses the fears and questions she faced in taking on this dual role of mother and grandmother and how a foster care specialist supported them during the transition.