Family First
Keeping Children Connected to the People Who Know and Love Them
This Kinship Care Awareness Month, we’re celebrating the families who step forward when children need them most. When children cannot safely remain with their parents, staying connected to family can provide a sense of familiarity, stability and belonging. Kinship Foster Care gives relatives and other trusted adults the opportunity to provide a safe, nurturing home while helping children and youth maintain important family and community connections.
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Family, First is rooted in the belief that a child’s story doesn’t begin when they enter foster care. Their relationships, memories, traditions and connections are already part of who they are. Kinship Care helps protect those connections during a time when so much else may be changing.
This campaign brings awareness to the importance of preserving family bonds and ensuring kinship foster families have the support they need to care for the children they love. Putting family first means looking beyond where a child will live it means protecting the connections that help them feel known, supported and at home.
The Power of Keeping Family Close
Kinship Care can provide more than a safe place to call home. It can help children preserve the relationships, traditions and connections that are already part of who they are.
Family Steps Up
More Than A Place To Call Home
Family connections are an important part of a child’s identity. Kinship families can help children maintain relationships with the people, traditions, culture and communities that have helped shape their lives.
Comfort Through Connection
When so much in a child’s life may be changing, a familiar face can mean a great deal. Kinship Care can give children the opportunity to live with relatives or trusted adults they already know and have an established connection with.
Family Can Make All The Difference
About one in three children in foster care are living with relatives. Kinship Care can help preserve important family relationships while providing children with the care and support they need.
When Family Steps Forward
Behind every Kinship Care story is someone who made the decision to be there when a child needed them. Our Family, First campaign is more than a message. It’s reflected in the caregivers who open their homes, preserve meaningful connections and help children remain close to the people and traditions that are already part of their lives.
Watch the story of our Arrow kinship parent recognized as TACFS Kinship Parent of the Year and see what putting Family, First can look like in action.
Keeping the Bonds That Matter Most
Kinship Care reminds us that when life changes for a child, the relationships they already know can be a powerful source of strength. Family, First celebrates the people who help preserve those connections and the families who provide children with a sense of belonging, familiarity and support when they need it most.
This Kinship Care Awareness Month, take the next step in learning how you can help keep children connected to family.