Support To Family Care Network

Educating, Training, & Supporting Caregivers Since 2003

adults-supporting-children.png

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

Out of Care Providers (Caregivers/Kinship Care)

Any parent will tell you raising a child is one of the most rewarding and challenging jobs out there. Out of Care/Kinship Care Providers are adults looking after children who cannot currently live with their biological parents. This may be for a short time or for an extended period of time. Children and youth who have experienced trauma, interruptions in attachment and other complexities require their caregiver to have a high degree of compassion accompanied by expertise in many areas. The Support To Family Care Network Program (STFC) encourages and promotes the knowledge and skills of caregivers by offering training, support and resources. We support caregivers as they offer stable homes for children and youth to thrive.

The STFC program provides confidential support and assists in creating and helping to maintain working relationships between caregivers and others (e.g. Ministry of Children and Family Development and Indigenous Child and Family Service Agency social workers, community agencies, and each other). This is done through regular communication such as meetings and 1-1 conversations.

Resources

Websites and Videos:

Suggested Readings (Books):

  • Growing an In-Sync Child: Simple, Fun Activities to Help Every Child Develop, Learn and Grow by Kranowitz and Newman, 2010
  • Nurturing Attachments: Supporting Children Who Are Fostered or Adopted by Kim S. Golding

Websites:

Printable Resources:

Suggested Readings (Books):

  • Lost at School: Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them by Dr. Ross Greene
  • Lost & Found Helping Behaviorally Challenging Students (and, While You're At It, All the Others) by Dr. Ross Greene
  • Managing ADHD in School: The Best Evidence-Based Methods for Teachers by R.A. Barkley (2016)
  • Teaching the Hurt Child: Relationships Between Trauma, Attachment and Learning by Andrea Chatwin (2018)
  • The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children by Dr. Ross Greene

Websites:

  • CanFASD - The Canada Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Research Network
  • KNOWFASD - Neurobehavioral difficulties that may appear throughout the lifespan of individuals with FASD
  • National Organization for FASD (UK)
  • NOFASD - National Organization for FASD (Australia)
  • POPFASD - British Columbia Ministry of Education provincial resource program

Printable Resources:

Suggested Reading (Books):

  • Living With FASD: A Guide For Parents by Sara Graefe (for SNAP Canada) (2008)


Websites:

Suggested Reading (Books):

  • A Child's View of Grief: A Guide fro Parents, Teachers and Counselors by Dr. Alan D. Wolfelt (2004)
  • Deconstruction / Reconstruction: A Grief Journal for Teens by Dougy Centre (2017)
  • Healing a Child’s Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends and Caregivers by Alan D. Wolfelt, PH.D (2001)
  • Healing a Teen’s Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends and Caregivers by Alan D. Wolfelt, PH.D (2001)
  • Parenting through Crisis: Helping Kids in Times of Loss, Grief and Change by Barbara Coloroso (2012)

Websites:

Printable Materials:

Suggested Reading (Books):

  • Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents Seven Ways to Stop the Worry Cycle and Raise Courageous and Independent Children by Reid Wilson & Lynn Lyons (2013)
  • How to Take the Grrr out of Anger by Verdick, Elizabeth; Marjorie Lisovskis (2015)
  • Playing with Anxiety by Reid Wilson & Lynn Lyons (2014)
  • Taking Charge of ADHD: The Complete Authoritative Guide for Parents (4th ed.) by R.A. Barkley (2016).
  • The Invisible String by Patrice Karst (2018)

Websites:

Printable Materials:

Suggested Reading (Books):

  • Discipline Without Damage How to Get Your Kids to Behave without Messing Them Up by Dr. Vanessa Lapointe (2016)
  • Late, Lost and Unprepared A Parent’s Guide to Helping Children with Executive Functioning by Joyce Cooper-Kahn and Laurie C Dietzel (2008)
  • Parenting Right From the Start Laying a Healthy Foundation in the Baby and Toddler Years by Dr. Vanessa Lapointe (2019)
  • Parenting With Love & Logic Teaching Children Responsibility by Dr. C Foster and J Fay (2020)
  • Raising a Secure Child How Circle of Security Parenting Can Help You Nurture Your Child’s Attachment, Emotional Resilience and Freedom to Explore by Kent Hoffman, Glen Cooper and Bert Powell (2017)
  • Rest, Play, Grow: Making Sense of Preschoolers (Or Anyone Who Acts Like One) by Dr. Deborah MacNamara (2016)
  • The Grandfamily Guidebook: Wisdom and Supports for Grandparents Raising Grandchildren by Andrew Adesman, MD and Christine Adamec (2018)

Websites:

Printable Materials:

Suggested Reading (Books):

  • Raising A Sensory Smart Child The Definitive Handbook for Helping Your Child with Sensory Processing Issues by Lindsey Biel and Nancy Peske (2009)
  • The Out of Sync Child Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder by Carol Stock Kranowitz (2005)
  • The Sensory Processing Disorder Answer Book Practical Answers to the Top 250 Questions Parents Ask by Tara Delaney (2008)

Websites and Videos:

Printable Materials:

Suggested Reading (Books):

  • Teaching the Hurt Child Relationships Between Trauma, Attachment and Learning by Andrea Chatwin (2018)
  • The A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting Strategies and Solutions by Sarah Naish (2018)
  • The Connected Child by Karyn Purvis, David Cross, Wendy Sunshine (2007)
  • The Quick Guide to Therapeutic Parenting A Visual Introduction by Sarah Naish and Sarah Dillon (2020)
  • Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma by Dr. Janina Fisher (2021)
  • What Happened To You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Dr. Bruce Perry and Oprah Winfrey (2020)
  • Wrapping Our Ways Around Them: Indigenous Communities and Child Welfare Guidebook (Second Edition)
  • You Weren’t With Me by Chandra Ghosh Ippen (2019)
  • Your Baby Brain is Loud Tonight by Andrea Chatwin and Leanne Stem (2017)

Websites

Printable Materials:

Suggested Reading (Books):

  • ADHD Workbook for Teens by Lara Honos-Webb, PH.D. (2010)
  • Parenting Teens With Love & Logic by Dr. C Foster and J Fay (2020)
  • The Grown-Up's Guide to Teenage: How to Decode Their Behavior, Develop Unshakable Trust, and Raise a Respectable Adult by Josh Shipp (2017)
  • The Teens Guide to World Domination Advice on Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Awesomeness by Josh Shipp (2010)
  • Your Body is Not an Apology Workbook Tools for Living Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor (2021)

Support Report Archive

"The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love."

Dr. Bruce Perry
grandparent-consoling-child.png

Support To Family Care Network
Phone: 236-421-0031
Toll Free: 1-877-376-3660
Program Coordinator Kari Bepple: 250-819-1919 (cell)

Families

Copyright 2018 Interior Community Services: Support To Family Care Network | Web Design by: Triple I

E-Newsletter Signup

Subscribe to our mailing list

If you are a foster parent in one of our service areas please feel free to sign up for our e-newsletter.

* indicates required