March 21, 2023
The Grandfamilies & Kinship Support Network’s partner, the National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA), hosted a webinar on March 21, 2023, during which a panel discussion was framed with the relational worldview model, an Indigenous model that looks at well-being as a balance between the four quadrants—environment, mind, body, and spirit. Panelists discussed navigating changes in relationships with their relatives from their experience living in a grandfamily/kinship family. Panelists discussed things that helped bring them balance and what support they needed from those around them.
The purpose of this webinar is to help Tribes who operate kinship support service programs, including kinship navigation programs, know about and understand how they can prepare to take advantage of new resources afforded under the Supporting America's Children and Families Act.
There is the age-old myth in working with kinship families: “Our organization has services in place, but I can’t get caregivers to show up. They…
