Online Kinship Care Trainings
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Online Kinship Care Trainings
- 1. 0 webinar: online kinship care trainings OCTOBER 16, 2018 CHILD WELFARE STRATEGY GROUP
- 2. 1 • If you experience technical difficulties during this webinar, visit www.aecf.org/webex for guidance. If you still have trouble, notify us using the chat or Q&A window, or contact WebEx technical support at 1-866- 229-3239. • If you do not see the Q&A window, make sure the Q&A icon at the top of that column is blue (see image to left; icon circled in red). If it is not blue, click the icon, and the window should appear. • You can type questions for presenters in the Q&A window at any time during the webinar. • The webinar is being recorded and will be available after the presentation. Questions?
- 3. Joseph Crumbley Family Therapist Consultant Trainer 2 Today’s presenters Tracey Feild Director Child Welfare Strategy Group The Annie E. Casey Foundation
- 4. 3 Webinar agenda • Brief background and trends in kinship care • Review our two online training resources – For child welfare professionals: “Engaging Kinship Caregivers” – For kinship caregivers: “Coping With the Unique Challenges of Kinship Care” • Q&A
- 5. 4 We want to hear from you Why is support for relative caregivers so important?
- 6. BRIEF BACKGROUND AND TRENDS IN KINSHIP CARE
- 7. 6 Continuity • Can be less traumatic to children since relatives are known and familiar • Provides ongoing cultural and community and family connections The consensus: When a child must be removed from her home, relatives are the preferred placement Kinship care offers: Better outcomes • Children experience greater placement stability than in other placement types • Kin will care for children with difficult behavioral issues and the children get better, resulting in significantly fewer long- term behavior problems for children after placement It’s also federal law that kin should be the first option considered
- 8. 7 National data is clear: As kinship care increases, group placements decrease Source: The Annie E. Casey Foundation/Child Welfare Strategy Group’s analysis of Federal AFCARS data 2000 to 2016 25% 24% 24% 23% 22% 23% 24% 25% 24% 24% 26% 27% 27% 28% 29% 30% 32% 51% 51% 51% 51% 51% 50% 49% 50% 51% 52% 52% 51% 51% 50% 50% 49% 49% 18% 18% 19% 19% 18% 18% 17% 17% 16% 16% 15% 14% 15% 14% 14% 13% 12% 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% 50% 55% 60% 65% 70% 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 PercentofChildreinFosterCare Placement Type for Children In Care Non-Kin Family Kinship Group
- 9. 8 • 47 states have recently been awarded grants to build Kinship Navigator programs • While work is needed to establish evidence-based Kinship Navigator programs, we know that effective programs provide: – Information and referral services – Emotional support for caregivers – Case management – Outreach to families Family First Act promotes kinship care
- 10. ONLINE TRAINING SERIES FOR CHILD WELFARE PROFESSIONALS: “ENGAGING KINSHIP CAREGIVERS”
- 11. 10 • How does this change your life? • How does this affect you emotionally? Imagine that a relative asks you to take their children into your home
- 12. 11 Kinship care: • Is unplanned, by default, and in a crisis • Affects family dynamics, roles, responsibilities, authority and loyalties between members of the kinship triad (relative caregiver, birth parent and birth child) and extended family While similar in many ways, the role of kinship caregivers is significantly different from non-relative foster parents
- 13. 12 “Engaging Kinship Caregivers” training series modules MODULE 1: GUILT The need to place the needs of the child over that of the birth parent MODULE 2: LOSS AND AMBIVALENCE Interruptions in the caregiver’s plans, priorities, space and privacy MODULE 3: PROJECTIONS AND TRANSFERENCE When the child reminds the caregiver of someone else in the family MODULE 4: HOPE, FANTASY AND DENIAL What professionals call denial may be what the family calls hope MODULE 5: LOYALTY ISSUES Redefining roles and relationships with the child and the birth parent
- 14. 13 Casey’s online training series www.aecf.org/blog/engaging-kinship-caregivers-with-joseph-crumbley/
- 15. 14 www.aecf.org/blog/engaging-kinship-caregivers-with-joseph-crumbley/ Preview: “Engaging Kinship Caregivers”
- 16. 15 Discussion guide • Step-by-step guidance for facilitating group discussions • Available on Casey website at https://www.aecf.org/blog/engaging- kinship-caregivers-with-joseph- crumbley/
- 17. 16 • In pre-service or continuing education trainings with workers and supervisors • In team meetings and group supervision sessions • For small group or individual study How to use Casey’s training series For child welfare professionals
- 18. ONLINE TRAINING SERIES FOR KINSHIP CAREGIVERS: “COPING WITH THE UNIQUE CHALLENGES OF KINSHIP CARE”
- 19. 18 • Why you have no choice but to ask: ̶ Should I and can I be a caregiver?” ̶ “Should I and can I continue being a caregiver?” • Why doing it out of obligation is not enough of a reason to provide kinship care “I have to. I have no choice. I’m obligated.”
- 20. 19 “Coping With the Unique Challenges of Kinship Care” training series modules MODULE 1: LOSS AND AMBIVALENCE Interruptions in the caregiver’s plans, priorities, space and privacy MODULE 2: GUILT The need to place the needs of the child over that of the birth parent MODULE 3: HOPE AND DENIAL Hope inspires caregivers, but can become a problem when it becomes denial MODULE 4: QUESTIONS FROM CAREGIVERS
- 21. 20 www.aecf.org/blog/training-series-coping-with-the- unique-challenges-of-kinship-care/ Preview: “Coping With the Unique Challenges of Kinship Care”
- 22. 21 • Step-by-step guidance for facilitating group discussions • Available on Casey website at www.aecf.org/blog/training- series-coping-with-the-unique- challenges-of-kinship-care/ Discussion guide
- 23. 22 • In pre-service or continuing education trainings with caregivers • During one-on-one trainings with families in their homes • In support group meetings • For small group or individual study How to use this training series for relative caregivers
- 24. QUESTIONS & ANSWERS Reminder: A recording of this webinar will be available after the presentation
Editor's Notes
- TRACEY: I am Tracey Feild… Welcome to this webinar, which will introduce you to two video training series on kinship care, one for child welfare caseworkers and one for kin caregivers. Before we get into the material, I wanted to take a moment and orient you to the mechanics of the webinar. Quickly go through the 4 bullets above.
- TRACEY: Okay, let’s get started… Through this webinar we aim to provide an overview of the two series and help you use them, whether you are a caseworker, supervisor, administrator or a kin caregiver. Casey produced the two series with Dr. Joseph Crumbley, an internationally respected expert in this field. We are pleased to broaden the reach of Joe’s teaching by providing these video trainings online. Joe’s deep expertise in kinship care and extraordinary teaching wisdom are what make these videos rich, nuanced and immensely valuable. JOE: Thank you, Tracey. Something brief about why these training series are important.
- TRACEY: Let’s look at what we are going to cover today. Walk them quickly through the agenda.
- TRACEY: Now we’d like to hear a little from you in the audience. Using the chat box on your screen, type a response to this question: Why is support for relative caregivers so important? Let the response come in… reading several as they do. Thanks so much for those responses! We will be asking for your responses a couple more times today, so I am glad to know that works. You can type in questions as we go through our presentation and we also have reserved time at the end for questions and answers as well.
- TRACEY: From your comments, I know we are preaching to the choir here, but we wanted to spend a little time talking about why kinship care is such an important placement resource and discuss some trends in the field around kinship care.
- TRACEY: Casey has been advocating for KIN FIRST: out-of-home placements should prioritize placing kids with relatives. Why? Walk through bullets.
- TRACEY: We have learned through our work with public child welfare agencies that kinship care is the key replacement for congregate care. Kinship care placements have increased from 22 percent in 2004 to 32 percent in 2016. (This is the most recent data we have from AFCARS.) More than 139,000 children in foster care are in kinship placements. Thousands more are in informal kinship care arrangements. This graph shows the percentage of placements by type since 2000: the blue line on top is foster family placements. The orange line on the bottom shows group placements. The green line is the percentage of placements with relatives. Notice that foster family placements have hovered at about 50% for 18 years. The big changes are in group placements and kin placements. Group is going down and kinship care is going up! What is the story these data are telling us? IF WE WANT TO PLACE CHILDREN WITH FAMILIES AND REDUCE OVERRELIANCE ON GROUP PLACEMENT, KIN IS THE MOST IMPORTANT SOLUTION! As we continue our work to increase kinship placements in our strategic consulting and advocacy, we know that meeting the unique needs of relative caregivers is critical. This is why we have partnered with Joe Crumbley to develop these training series.
- TRACEY: The Children’s Bureau recognizes the critical importance of relative caregivers. 47 states just received funding through FFA for kinship navigator programs. The types of services these programs provide– information and referral services, emotional support for caregivers, case management, outreach to families– are essential supports to families doing this important work for children and youth who have experienced abuse and neglect. Relative caregivers deserve all the support we can provide. This includes empathy, understanding and respect. This is one of the main teaching points for child welfare professionals highlighted in the first training series we are going to discuss today.
- TRACEY: Let’s now look at this first training resource we are sharing today. Last year Joe worked with Casey to create a five-module training series for child welfare professionals called “Engaging Kinship Caregivers: Managing Risk Factor in Kinship Care.” We thought it would be great to have Joe give you an example of his engaging teaching style and to make some of the teaching points in this series: Why caregivers emotional responses to caring for their own are understandable How kinship care is different from non-kinship foster and adoptive families.
- JOE: Leads the webinar group in this exercise. Webinar participants can type in their replies IN THE CHAT BOX ON THEIR SCREEN to the questions on the slide. Joe calls out some of the replies as they come in… Then he adds: Now imagine that you just found out that the child welfare agency is involved and you are being asked to care for the children. You learn that abuse and neglect may be the reasons the agency is involved. Then he asks the group the same questions on the slide. The teaching points he shares, based on the group’s response: These are all normal and natural reactions And, if they are not addressed, they can become risk factors for the child’s safety permanency and well-being.
- JOE: Brings forward the points on the slide.
- JOE: I think most professionals understand that kinship care is different from nonrelative foster care. In this training series, we examine in detail what the differences are, and, importantly, how to effectively engage relative caregivers We organized the training series into 5 modules. Read through the list.
- TRACEY: Let me take you to our website and show you around. (Click the link which brings the screen to the blog post) We tried to capture Joe’s engaging training style by doing the five video’s “TED-Talk-Style.” He was taped over a few days in the summer of 2017 at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in front of a live audience of child welfare professionals. We wanted them to be brief so they were likely to be accessed by busy caseworkers and supervisors. All are about 20 minutes long. SHOW THEM THE WEBPAGE VERY BRIEFLY: So, as you can see, there is an into video with me. And then the five modules.
- JOE: Let’s look at an example of the video training. This clip is from Module 1 on Guilt SHOW THEM A CLIP OF ONE MODULE: 1:35 to 4:28 Joe briefly discusses why this is important.
- TRACEY: Let’s walk briefly through the Discussion Guide: Each of the 5 modules has a corresponding section in the discussion guide. The guide helps group leaders, trainers and individuals viewing on their own to bring the material shown on the video to life in the room. CLICK ON LINK AND OPEN GUIDE. For each of the 5 modules there are three activities that support the teaching points for that module: An experiential activity like the one you just did with Joe Scripts on how to respond to caregivers, And application of the concepts to a real case.
- JOE: Walk through the list and give one or two examples of how you have heard about people using the video series.
- TRACEY: We have just posted this brand new training series designed for relative caregivers on our website today! Coping with the Unique Challenges of Kinship Care. Many of us in the field have been advocating strongly that more kids be placed with relatives and for real support– such as specialized workers assigned to support kin caregivers. At the same time, Joe urges caregivers to carefully consider if being a caregiver is right for them.
- JOE: Walks through the teaching points in this slide.
- JOE: We organized the training series into 4 modules. Read through the list, very briefly explaining each.
- TRACEY: So, as you can see here, the video train series for caregivers is available online on our website. Here you see the 4 modules that we videotaped in front of kinship caregivers in Philadelphia. JOE: Let’s look at a clip from Module 3 on Hope and Denial 13:17 to 17:58 After the tape is done rolling. Briefly explain why sharing the goals, self-dialogues and responses is so important for caregivers. Now, Let’s have a look at one of the questions and my answer from Module 4. Q&A : 00:19 to 3:53 I think most caregivers watching the video series will be able to relate to the person asking the question about setting boundaries with her sister. It is one of the difficult things caregivers need to cope with.
- TRACEY: Here is the discussion guide for this video series. For each of the first three modules, where Joe is teaching the group, there are instructions for group leaders, trainers and individual learners to walk through: reflections and discussions, practice for self-dialogues and experiential exercises. There are hand-outs for each of the first three modules too. For the fourth module, which is questions from caregivers and responses by Joe, there is a set of questions to stimulate conversation. Including questions, such as, “Can you relate with what she is going through? How?” and, “What other advice and suggestions would you have offered the caregiver that was not already provided?”
- JOE: This training is brand new, so I am curious how people we use it. Here are some of the ways it can be used with relative caregivers. Briefly, walk through slide.
- TRACEY: We would be very happy to take questions from you with the xx minutes we have left in the webinar. Please type your questions in the Q & A section at the bottom of the dialogue box and we will do our best to respond!