Toolbox Training

Kinship care providers face many issues that non-related foster and adoptive parents do not.  Managing the boundaries of relationships with the birth parents of the children whom you are fostering and/or adopting is very different when those birth parents are your own children, or nieces, nephews, siblings, or other relatives.  Providers often face very real issues of anger, frustration, and grief with respect to birth parents.  Families who become kinship care providers often had no plans to take on the care of another’s child or children.  Many have had to shift their life plans in mid-course, changing priorities, lifestyles, and making adjustments to parenting a second time around.  Further, adjusting to working within the structure of the Office of Child and Family Services is different than parenting children for whom you are the legal guardian.  This six-hour program is designed to supplement the introductory 24-hour training program offered for prospective foster and adoptive parents and kinship care providers, to touch on those issues unique to kinship care.  It can serve as a refresher course for kinship care providers who have taken the kinship-specific introductory training, and is a starting point for those kin who have not been able to attend the 24-hour introductory training program.   

To register, contact:

Name:	Staff Education and Training Unit
Phone:	(207) 287-9355 (207) 287-9234 TTY
Fax:	(207) 287-9351
Email:	DHHS.setu@maine.gov
Website:	http://www.state.me.us/DHHS/setu/setu.htm
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Child Welfare Training Institute
Muskie School of Public Service
University of Southern Maine
45 Commerce Drive, Suite 11 § Augusta, Maine 04330
207.626.5200 § 207.626.5088 (fax) § 207.626.5282 (TTY)