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UW School of Social Work

The Inherent Strengths in Kinship Families: Legacy

  • Published: Jul 5, 2025
    • Credential For Completion

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Describe why legacies are a strength in kinship families.

  • Explain how to use legacies to strengthen family connections

  • Develop methods for creating new legacies and disrupting cycles

The Inherent Strengths in Kinship Families is a training series developed by Dr. Joseph Crumbley for kinship caregivers. The series takes a strength-based perspective in outlining different topics that are unique to kinship families and providing strategies for caregivers. This module discusses how the sharing of legacies is a strength between caregivers and their children. This module also identifies strategies for how caregivers can create new family traditions, rites of passage, and goals that interrupt family cycles. 

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