STRATEGY BRIEF STRONG FAMILIES - What supports can benefit kinship

While the number of children entering foster care annually has decreased in recent years, children affected by parental substance use disorders continue to enter foster care at an increased pace — and the children are coming in at a younger age, with greater needs, and staying longer.1 The number of children living with kinship caregivers — family members and chosen or fictive kin — has increased. [...] IDEA focused on individuals experiencing a substance provides valuable opportunities for kinship caregivers use disorder, with significantly less attention paid to work with child welfare professionals to ensure to the needs of children and other family members, early identification of the effects of prenatal substance despite demonstrated short- and long-term effects of exposure, and that interve. [...] Provide training Establish kinship navigator programs Kinship families need training on understanding Kinship navigator programs provide outreach to kinship the effects of prenatal substance exposure, the families, information and referral services (including effects of parental substance use disorders on child information on legal assistance and eligibility and development, and how to help childr. [...] Connection Can Improve Out- comes for Families Affected by Substance Use and Mental Disorders (n.d.) SAFE CHILDREN STRONG FAMILIES SUPPORTIVE COMMUNITIES SAFE CHILDREN STRONG FAMILIES SUPPORTIVE COMMUNITIES SAFE CHILDREN STRONG FAMILIES SUPPORTIVE COMMUNITIES SAcFaEse CyH.oILrgD R |E N 7 STRONG FAMILIES SUPPORTIVE COMMUNITIES SAFE CHILDREN STRONG FAMILIES SAFE CHILDREN STRONG . [...] MorILgI E S| S KUMPRPeOsRoTuIrVcEe CsO@McaMseUyN.oITrIgES SAFE SAFE CHILDREN STRONG FAMILIES SUPPORTIVE COMMUNITIES SAFE CHILDREN STRONG FAMILIES SUPPORTIVE COMMUNITIES SAFE CHILDREN STRONG FAMILIES SUPPORTIVE COMMUNITIES SAFE CHILDREN STRONG FAMILIES SUPPORTIVE COMMUNITIES SAFE CHILDREN STRONG FAMILIES SAFE CHILDREN STRONG FAMILIES SUPPORTIVE COMMUNITIES SAFE CHILDREN STRONG FAMILIES SUPPORTIVE C.