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January - February 2010 Schedule
Kinship Care Education
 
If you are a grandparent, aunt, uncle, sibling,
etc. raising your relative’s children then you are a Kinship Care
provider. There is no formal requirement for you to attend classes
or workshops, but many kinship care providers have expressed a
desire for more training in specific areas to help them better
meet the needs of the children in their care and themselves as
well. You are welcome to attend any of the classes or workshops
in this website which were traditionally geared to foster parents.
Just call the registration line at 1-800-200-1222 or in
the case of the Support Group Workshops, call the contact
person for that group for directions.
Kinship Support Groups
Kinship Support Groups/Traditions of Caring workshops are
held throughout the county in collaboration with the local region's
Community Services for Families agencies who often offer childcare
onsite for the meetings. Just call the number for the group most
convenient for you to get directions and other information.
NORTH
CENTRAL AND CENTRAL REGIONS:
TUESDAYS, 9:30-11:30 AM (English) George Stevens
Senior Center, 570 So. 65th St, San Diego, 92114
WEDNESDAYS, 10 AM-Noon (English) Cornerstone Connections FRC,
3445 Oceanview Blvd, San Diego, 92113
THURSDAYS, 10:00 AM-Noon, (English) Ray & Joan Kroc Community
Center, Building A, 6845 University Ave, SD 92115
WEDNESDAYS (Miercoles) (Spanish) 10:00 AM-Noon, Cornerstone Connections
FRC, 3445 Oceanview Blvd, SD, 92113
THURSDAYS (Jueves), (Spanish) 10:00 AM-Noon, Ray & Joan Kroc
Comm. Cntr, Bldg A, 6845 University Ave, SD 92115
FRIDAYS (Viernes) (Spanish), 10:00 AM-Noon (Spanish) Clark Middle
School, 4388 Thorn St., San Diego, 92105
EAST COUNTY REGION:
TUESDAYS, 10:00 AM-Noon, (English) Rose House
Kinship Center, 1863 Dehesa Rd, El Cajon, 92019
FRIDAYS, 6:00-8:00 PM (English) Rose House Kinship Center, 1863
Dehesa Rd, El Cajon, 92019, Rm A, WOMEN’S GROUP
FRIDAYS, 6:00-8:00 PM, (English) Rose House Kinship Center, 1863
Dehesa Rd, El Cajon, 92019Rm B, MEN’S GROUP
MONDAYS (Lunes), 6:00-8:00 PM, (Spanish) Rose House Kinship Center,
1863 Dehesa Rd, El Cajon, 92019
NORTH COUNTY COASTAL AND INLAND REGIONS:
THURSDAYS, 5:30-7:30 PM (English) Ecke YMCA, 200
Saxony Rd, Encinitas, 92024
MONDAYS, 5:30-7:30 PM (English) Palomar YMCA, 1050 North Broadway,
Escondido, 92026
TUESDAYS, 5:30-7:30 PM (English) Community Lutheran Church, 4507
Mission Avenue, Oceanside, 92057
WEDNESDAYS (Miercoles) (Spanish) 10:00 AM-Noon, SFTH, 851 W. San
Marcos Blvd, San Marcos, 92078
SOUTH REGION:
TUESDAYS, 5:30-7:30 PM MAAC Charter School, 1385
Third Avenue, Chula Vista, 91911
MONDAYS (Lunes), 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM (Spanish), Senior Center,
125 East Park Ave, San Ysidro, 92173
FRIDAYS (Viernes), AM Trolley Trestle Apts, 746 Ada Street, Chula
Vista, 91911
THURSDAYS (Jueves), 10:00am - Noon) Maria Hinojosa’s Home,
418 F Avenue, National City, CA 91950
COUNTYWIDE:
Kinship Legal and Education Advocacy Issues Class:
Last Friday of each month from 6:00 – 8:00 PM at the Rose
House Kinship Center, 1863 Dehesa Road, El Cajon, 92019,
Rm A—Taught by Attorney Trina Branch and/or Martha Rawlings,
Kinship Caregiver/Advocate
Classes
for Kinship Caregivers - English
TRADITION OF CARING—taught
by a variety of kinship caregiver trainers
This class is a series of 27 hours of training on a wide variety
of important subjects all
kinship caregivers should know such as kinship family dynamics,
how to work with the
child protection/court system, how to access resources, discipline,
mental health issues, etc.
COMMON SENSE PARENTING—taught by a variety
of kinship caregiver trainers
Topics include setting clear expectations, giving positive and
negative consequences for behavior, staying calm, teaching self-control,
using Effective Praise and Preventive and Corrective Teaching,
helping children make decisions and solve problems, reaching goals
with charts and contracts, and teaching social skills. Also provided
are strategies for dealing with the influence of the media, peer
pressure, and problems in school.
This fall these two classes are underway in the
Kinship Support Groups in the four major areas of the county (North,
South, Metro, East). All kinship caregivers (dependency placements,
informal placements, KinGap and Kinship Adoption) are welcome.
Contact the ROSE HOUSE KINSHIP CENTER 619-447-5004
to find out more about classes close to you.
Clases
Para el Cuidado de Parientes - En Español
CUIDADO TRADICIONAL—presentado
por entrenadores de cuidado de parientes
Estas clases son una serie de 27 horas de entrenamiento con una
amplia variedad de temas
importantes y dinámicas que todos los cuidadores de parientes
deben saber como trabajar en
la protección del niño, sistema de la corte, como
tener acceso a recursos, disciplina y temas de
salud mental, etc.
LA CRIANZA PRACTICA DE LOS HIJOS
Tópicos incluyen expectaciones claras dar consecuencias positivas
y negativas por el comportamiento, estar en calma, enseñarles
autocontrol, usando elogio efectivo, y disciplina preventiva y correctiva.
Ayuda a los niños a tomar decisiones y resolver problemas,
alcanzar las metas con contratos, aprenden habilidades sociales.
También provee otras estrategias para manejar la influencia
del radio televisión y prensa, la presión de los amigos
y problemas en la escuela.Durante este Otoño, las siguientes
clases estarán bajo la dirección de los grupos de
apoyo parientes/no parientes en las cuatro principales áreas
del Condado (Norte, Sur Este, Oeste). Todos los parientes/no parientes
(Colocación Dependiente, Colocación Informal, KinGAP,
y Parientes/No Parientes Adoptivos) son bienvenidos.
Contacte a ROSE HOUSE KINSHIP CENTER 619-447-5004
para saber donde hay clases cercas de usted.
Childcare/Respite
If you are a foster parent or relative caregiver who has
a child placed through the County of San Diego Juvenile Court Dependency
Section, CALL: MAXIM COMPANION SERVICES at 1-866-233-1913 to arrange
FREE childcare if you qualify for their program.
If you know someone who wants to become a foster parent, have him/her
call this number to get details on a Foster Parent Orientation in
their neighborhood
1-877-792-KIDS (5437)
Pride
If you know someone who is looking for the foster parent
initial or pre-service classes (PRIDE Pre-Service), tell them to
call 1-800-200-1222 to get information and/or to register.
Adoption
If you know someone who wants to adopt a child from the county:
FOR MORE INFORMATION, HAVE THEM CALL: 1-877-423-6788; (En Espanol
llame al 619-336-5740).
Wonderful
News for Kinship Care in San Diego County!!
Two New Programs Start in January 2010
- Grossmont College Kinship Support Services Program (KSSP)
- Starting in January, 2010, Grossmont College will administer
the KSSP funding to support the many kinship support groups
in all areas of the county.
- There will now be food and childcare at each support group
meeting as well as an educational component.
- Each kinship support group will be asked in January to outline
their needs for ongoing support and training topics.
- The Kinship Case Management responsibility within the KSSP
will be sub-contracted to the YMCA. There will be one KSSP Case
Manager serving a limited area of the county. More on this service
will be described in later editions of this flier. This will
dovetail nicely with their new YMCA Federal Kinship Navigator
Program described below.
YMCA Federal Kinship Navigator Program
YMCA Youth & Family Services is the proud recipient of
a Federal Kinship Navigator program. The federal Administration
for Children and Families (ACF), Children's Bureau, awarded
competitive grant funds authorized by the Fostering Connections
to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008.
Funding is for expanding Kinship Navigator programs and measuring
their impact on improving children's outcomes in the areas of
safety, permanency, and well-being. Grants are authorized for
the purpose of:
- Assisting kinship caregivers, through information and referral
systems and other means, to learn about, find, and use existing
programs and services to meet their own needs and the needs
of the children they are raising; and
- Promoting effective partnerships between public and private,
community and faith-based agencies to better serve the needs
of kinship caregiver families.
As a demonstration project, grantees are required to engage
in an evaluation of sufficient rigor to demonstrate potential
linkages between project activities and improved outcomes. More
details are to come and the program will tentatively start in
January of 2010.
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