HeaHOW CAN YOU SUPPORT REUNIFICATION
Over half of the children in foster care will reunify with their family. The desired outcome of foster care is reunification and you our wonderful caregivers have supported 1,210 children last year reunify. See the statewide proclamation. This month we celebrate this success. To find a tip sheet to support reunification. click here

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY
Happy Father's Day to all the Fathers that have made a difference in the lives of our children. Children look to their fathers for both feelings of physical and emotional safety: fathers also promote inner growth and strength. Thank you for encouraging and loving the children in your family!.

10 ANNUAL
BACK TO SCHOOL - BACK TO BASICS
SPONSORED BY SQUARE AND ATELIER SALON
This year due to COVID we are unable to do the Hair cuts event at the Salon. However we will be doing a pick up event. You can pick up back packs, school uniforms and shoes at Peggy's Attic. The pick up will occur two weeks prior to school starting:

July 26th to 31, (Mon - Thurs 9 to 4, Monday 26th 4-7p and Saturday 31st 9a to noon)

August 2-5, (Mon - Thurs 9 -4, Wed 4th 4p to 7p).

Please CLICK HERE to register. The event is for all children under DFS care.
A DFS Celebrates 2021 Graduates

DFS Independent Living and Step Up acknowledge all 73 of our graduates on their well-earned achievements. We will be celebrating these achievements on June 23, 2021. Special thanks to our community partners who have helped us recognize these graduates. CASA,
Children's Advocacy Alliance, CSN, Children's Service
Guild, and Raise The Future.
NORMALCY
RESPITE REIMBURSEMENT
We received funding to reimburse normalcy respite providers that are identified by foster parents. Funding will be available starting today and will be offered on a first-come, first-serve basis, until the funds are depleted. This funding will ONLY be offered for normalcy respite to strongly encourage the use of familiar caregivers or peer-to-peer support versus stranger care. 
Click HERE for more information.
Canyon Ridge Supports Caregivers
Open to all foster caregivers (licensed, unlicensed, relative, fictive kin) Please make sure to register your register yourself and each child that will be participating. Registration closes once all slots are filled. Must register no later than Monday, June 14, 2021. Night out is Friday June 18, 2021

Click here to register
Kinship Support Groups
June 8, 15, 17, 2021
Foster Kinship Youth Support Groups

Foster kinship is offering four session youth support groups that are designed to provide meaningful strategies toward self-care and mindfulness. Each week will have a different focus with empowering messages supported by coping mechanisms for everyday life challenges. All log-in information for Online/Zoom Support Groups will be posted in *closed* Facebook group, search Nevada Kinship Caregivers.



Raise the Future training webinars:



Facilitator: Lauren Fishbein
In this panel, you will hear from adoptees who have “woken up from the adoption fog.” The objective of this panel is to give insight into the process of realizing that adoption is a trauma that impacts adoptees in various aspects of their lives. You will hear about our panelists' journeys through this intense yet extremely healing process

Fostering and Developing Self-Reliance in Youth (FREE Webinar)
Facilitator: Delores Carr
As caregivers, we have a responsibility to prepare our children for independence as they become adults. The process of enhancing a child’s ability to be self-reliant begins when children are very young and continues into young adulthood. Caregivers begin this process with the simplest learning opportunities in daily living skills, increasing the complexity of the activities and skills as the child succeeds and matures. Building self-reliant teenagers is an intentional process. Tools to foster self-reliance in teenagers at various stages and developmental levels will be covered in this training.

Facilitator: Lauren Fishbein
This panel discussion will be focused on the teen experience of adoption. We do not often get to hear adolescents speak candidly and openly about their lives as adoptees. This webinar will give you more insight into how teens really feel about being adopted and the struggles they face in day-to-day life. We will explore how adoption impacts teens' relationships with family, friends, and school.

Facilitator: Allison Cooke Douglas
A long, lazy summer sounds soothing...but for caregivers of kids with trauma histories, the lack of structure and consistency can lead to drama, meltdowns, and behavior issues. Gain a new understanding of your child’s needs, while discovering six fun, attachment-building principles to support your summer success!
 
Facilitator: Abigail Esquivel 
In this workshop, we will explore how to hold the complexities of parenting a child with higher needs. Many parents feel overwhelmed and paralyzed by two opposing beliefs being true at the same time! For example: “I love my child AND I don’t know how I can continue to live like this.” You will learn how to hold, at the same time, both gratitude and joy as well as fatigue and helplessness. Research supports that being able to embody “both/and” is the essence of mental health and creates resiliency in parents. By learning how to hold tension and dualities within parenting, you will experience more self-compassion and be able to show up authentically with your children.
 
Facilitator: Abigail Esquivel
You have almost certainly heard of Post-Traumatic Stress. In this webinar, we will explore a less well-known but far more hopeful phenomenon: Post-Traumatic Growth. You will learn about the neuroscience of memory and how the body holds trauma — and more importantly, the implications of healing and what this looks like in your child’s body. You will learn practical strategies for how to lend your own nervous system to your child, how to re-member with your littles at home through somatic and rhythmic strategies, and how to quantify healing at home to see that you are making progress with your child.

2021 Payment Calendars - Foster/Adoption
Family Support Groups

There are a variety of support groups available monthly for foster, kinship and adoptive families.

Foster Change has compiled all these wonderful resources into one useful guide.

You can view the list here.
What is Quality Parenting Initiative?
Building quality relationships through support and partnership for the well-being and support of our children.

Enhance Your Skills

Various trainings are offered in the community to help enhance caregivers' capacity to parent. Please click on the links below to learn more about exciting training opportunities from which you can benefit. 

The QPI Clark County Values
  • Children do best in families
  • Engaging our community
  • Supporting & strengthening families