Caring for Family, Caring for Yourself: A Guide for Kinship Caregivers
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
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Recognize how kinship caregiving can affect family roles, relationships, and dynamics, including common sources of conflict and stress.
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Acknowledge that self-care is an essential component of providing stable, nurturing care and strengthening resilience.
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Identify strategies for managing family conflict, setting healthy boundaries, and supporting safe and positive relationships between children and their parents.
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Develop strategies to balance children's needs with the caregiver’s own mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
This course supports kinship caregivers by exploring the emotional complexity of caring for children within the family network. Topics include managing divided loyalties, navigating shifting roles, setting healthy boundaries with parents and relatives, and addressing feelings such as anger, guilt and resentment. You will also learn how trauma, separation and loss affect both children and caregivers, and why prioritizing your well-being is essential. Strategies to manage stress, identify emotional triggers and build resilience will be shared, along with practical tools for self-care and fostering a protective, supportive environment for the entire family.
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