Strengthening Your Resilience as a Caregiver

- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN
- Ongoing Learning

Explore sources of stress inherent to kinship caregiving, understand the important role of kinship caregiving, identify your protective factors, and identify what you can do to address stress in helpful ways to become more resilient. Presenter: Janet Salo is a Kinship Navigator with the Kinship Family Support Services, a service of Lutheran Social Service of…

[Part 3] The Intersection of Transracial Adoption & Racial (in)Justice

- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN
- Ongoing Learning

Please join Angela Tucker for a three-part webinar series designed for adoption agencies (staff and families), child-welfare organizations and conferences. Transracial caregiving is a multifaceted journey for the entire family, but it is often the child who bears the brunt of navigating the complexity of the experience. It is critical that caregivers and parents understand…

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Greater Minnesota Parent Support Group

Greater Minnesota Parent Support Group
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN
- Support Groups

Open to pre-adoptive, adoptive, foster, relative and/or kinship caregivers living in Greater Minnesota (outside the Twin Cities Metro Area). This online group is facilitated by CH/LSS staff and offers connection,…

Search & Reunion Support Group

Search & Reunion Support Group
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN

This group is for adult adoptees and birth parents who are not related to one another and who are considering, or active in, search and reunion or have searched and the other party is not open to contact. This group is facilitated by CH/LSS staff. Members are supportive of one another and willing to share…