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  • Kinship-ND application
  • Kinship-ND brochure
  • Kinship-ND Caregiver Handbook: Resources covering various topics to help with your journey
  • Caregiver Services Chart

  • Ages & Stages: Healthy Childhood devlopment and Positive Parenting Strategies by Age Group
  • Positive Parenting Tips
  • Parent Resource Centers: Provides prevention-focused parenting and family education opportunities for parents, families, professionals and the community.
  • ParentsLEAD: Provides support, resources, tools, and tips to parents and caregivers, in all shapes and forms.
  • Empowered to Connect Youtube channel: Several videos on various topics to support, resource, and educate caregivers with helping children
  • Food battles
  • Using Time In Instead of Time out
  • The IDEAL Response for Parents: A video showing techinque for responding to children with behaviors
  • Childproofing by Age - Childproofing experts
  • Children, families, And Finances from NDSU Extension
  • Family to Family Network: Helps individuals with disabilities and their family members define and achieve success for themselves and their loved ones.
  • Grandfamilies.org: A national legal resource in support of grandfamilies within and outside the child welfare system.
  • Raising Grandchildren: Family Issues - with AARP
  • Raising the Children of the Opioid Epidemic: Solutions and Support for Grandfamilies
  • Kinship Care and resources from Child Welfare Information Gateway
  • Hand In Hand Parenting: Unique caregiving tools and community support made easily accessible
  • Zero to Three: Empowering Early Childhood Development
  • How Using Social Media Affects Teenagers
  • Teaching Kids to Be Smart About Social Media
  • CommonSense Media: Learn about the latest apps and websites, and get tips on talking to your kids about sharing, posting, and avoiding digital drama
  • A Positive Approach to Discipline: Pre-Teens and Tennages (9-18 years)
  • Positive Discipline articles
  • Positive Discipline

  • Help with Behaviors and trauma by Jessica Sinarski
  • Supporting Children Exposed to Violence & Trauma
  • For Caregivers Info on Behavioral Changes & video
  • Trauma informed Parenting
  • Parenting After Trauma - Healthychildren.org
  • Child Trauma Academy
  • Federation of Families:  For Children's Mental Health is a parent-run organization focused on the needs of children and youth with emotional, behavioral or mental disorders and their families.
  • About Child Trauma and Other Resources

  • Human Service zone office locations by county
  • Application for Assistance (TANF, SNAP, CCAP, Medicare, CHIPs & LIHEAP)
  • Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): Helps supplement grocery budget with financial assistance for food
  • Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF): Monthly financial support
  • ND Economic Assistance Brochure (TANF Kinship) : Monthly financial assistance for relatives caring for children in foster care (requires child suuport from parent)
  • Child Care Assistance Program: Helps pay for child care
  • ND Medicaid: Helps pay for medical services
  • Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP): Helps pay for medical services
  • Family Caregiver Support Program: Help with paying for respite assistance
  • Headstart: School readiness for infants, toddlers and preschoolers from low-income families
  • Title IV-E Prevention Services: Helps pay for approved evidence-based prevention services proven to strengthen and stabilize children and families so children can stay in their family home safely

  • Legal Comparison Chart: Compares the legal options of power of attorney, guardianship, and adoption
  • Power of Attorney Forms
  • Minor Guardianship Forms
  • Legal Services of North Dakota
  • Volunteer Lawyer program

  • Child Care Aware: Help finding licensed child care
  • Respite Provider Information
  • ND Post Adopt Network
  • Grandfamilies Fact Sheet for North Dakota: Information about caregiver population in ND

  • ND Parent-to-parent/Family Voices
  • Daily Strength support forum (Various topics)
  • Daily Strength Grandparents Raising Children support forum

  • Raising Our Children's Children by Deborah Doucette-Dusman
  • Raising Your Children's Children: Help For Grandparents Raising Grandkids by Martha Evans Sparks
  • Grandparents as Parents: A Survival Guide for Raising a Second Family by Sylvie De Toledo & Deborah Elder Brown
  • Advocating for Children in Foster and Kinship Care by Mitchell Rosenwald and Beth Riley
  • Riley The Brave Series (Children's book)
  • A Grandfamily for Sullivan (Children's book)
  • The 5 love languages of Children: The Secret to Loving Children Effectively by Gary Chapman and D. Ross Campbell
  • Behavior with a Purpose
  • The Whole Brain Child by Daniel J. Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson
  • Connected Child by Karyn B. Purvis
  • The Kinship Parenting Toolbox

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