- Kinship-ND application, SFN 408 (to apply for Kinship-ND)
- Kinship-ND Caregiver Handbook: Resources covering various topics to help with your journey
- Caregiver Services Chart
Child Development by age
- Ages & Stages: Healthy Childhood development and Positive Parenting Strategies by Age Group
- Childproofing by Age - Childproofing experts
"Parenting" skills
- 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 technique for responding to children with behaviors
- 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
Discipline: Discipline is about guiding youth toward appropriate behavior. It is not about punishment. It begins with open communication and trusting relationships. With positive discipline child can learn what to expect and how to control their own behaviors and to be accountable for their actions.
- A Positive Approach to Discipline: Pre-Teens and Tennagers (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
- Caregiver Services Chart
- 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
- 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