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Here you'll helpful podcasts, blogs, books and more with recommendations by kinship caregivers

Video Series About Trauma For Kids

Access Full Series Here: https://www.youtube.com/@all_connected

Kinship Caregiver Blog: Veronica's Substack

Visit Veronica's substack to read blog posts about her experiences and lessons learned as a kinship caregiver. 


https://veronicaakers.substack.com/

Daily Inspiration

Kinship Care: More Stories

Everyone Provides Kinship Care

"Adrian has the unique perspective of growing up in the foster care system and later providing kinship care to his niece and nephew. He shares his experiences with both systems and explains why he believes kinship care is the better option."

A Brief But Spectacular take on prioritizing kinship care

 Sixto Cancel is the founder and CEO of Think of Us, a nonprofit organization that aims to change child welfare systems across the country. He's also experienced foster care himself. He shares his Brief But Spectacular take on kinship care.

Recommended Caregiver Resource: Parenting Teens and Tweens

https://parentingteensandtweens.com/


About the Website: "Our goal with the Parenting Teens and Tweens community is to create a safe space where you and other parents of tweens and teens can find the answers you need. We also hope we can create a sense of connection and bring together a group of parents who are all in the trenches of these teen years together.  We want you to know you are not alone,

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Podcast Episodes Featuring Angela

Trauma-Informed Parenting Strategies

Generations United- Kinship Versus Guardianship

A Song for Kinship Caregivers

"Tired Eyes" by Chanda Lind

Books

Books for Adults

The Whole Brain Child

The Body Keeps the Score

The Body Keeps the Score

"In this pioneering, practical book, Daniel J. Siegel, neuropsychiatrist and author of the bestselling Mindsight, and parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson offer a revolutionary approach to child rearing with twelve key strategies that foster healthy brain development, leading to calmer, happier children."

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The Body Keeps the Score

The Body Keeps the Score

The Body Keeps the Score

In The Body Keeps the Score, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk shows how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust.  This book exposes the tremendous power of our relationships both to hurt and to heal—and offers new hope for reclaiming lives.

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Books for Kids

A Grandfamilly for Sullivan

A Grandfamily for Sullivan is a therapeutic story, designed with soothing imagery and sensitive language to help children cope with life after adverse childhood experiences (ACES). Come join Sullivan, his Grandma, and a wise friend as they weather the storms of life in this empowering story about family separation, courage, and what it's like to become a grandfamily. 

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