Grace Point Church Church provides free respite care every first Friday of the month. Grace Point Church appreciates the opportunity to help Foster Parents take a little break to catch a movie or go do something fun with their significant other. For more information please contact:702-942-1775.

Grace Point Church Events

Canyon Ridge Christian Church hosts Parents Night Out every third Friday of the month from

6-9 pm. For safety purposes, the door closes at 6:30 pm. Please make sure your children are fed before they are dropped off. Please click below to create an account if you are interested.

Canyon Ridge Registration

The next Community Connections Meeting will be on September 18, 2018 at 6 PM. Our Speaker for the night will be Amy Connell an Education Advocacy Paralegal from Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada, and attorney Kelly Venci, Esq . It is a meeting that will be packed with information on how to advocate for your kids in the school district you do not want to miss.

Dinner and childcare is provided for this event, please make reservations by emailing [email protected] or call 702-970-4546

September is Kinship month. We want to take this opportunity to thank all our members and anyone out there raising a relative child. We admire your love, hard work and dedication to helping your child become resilient. In your honor, Foster Kinship will be hosting a Kinship Celebration on Tuesday, September 11th at 6:00 pm.

Meet the team of Foster Kinship. Advocates work hard to connect Kinship Families with community referrals and resources.

Many times families are not aware that they could be eligible for services, these are are called Informal families. Informal families do not have an ope case with the Department of Family Services. Families who are considered Informal may have already signed Guardianship which means they would not be eligible for any licensing training or foster care reimbursement. An example of an available resource is Child Only TANF which is cash assistance for blood related family members who are raising a relative child. Clients are connected with the community through referrals for clothing, behavioral agencies, diapers, WIC and much more. This is part of the Foster Kinship Navigator program. Families call Foster Kinship to do a brief intake with a Family Advocate to see if they qualify.

Foster Kinship also works with families with formal cases, this means they have an active/open case with the Department of Family Services. These families attend classes for 5 weeks to work toward a license. Relative caregivers only have to complete 15 hours of class training in addition to other requirements such as CPR/First AID/AED training and Car Seat Safety. Foster Kinship offers these classes as well as a resource center to assist the caregiver through the licensing process. While it can be financially stressful during the licensing process, Foster Kinship provides Navigator Services which means they will connect caregivers with diapers, formula, and other resources available in the community. Child Only TANF might be an option only until they obtain their license.

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Foster Kinship is so committed to families that a monthly support group is held every second Tuesday of the month and includes dinner and childcare. For more information please click below.

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The Meet & Greet went great. We had new members join, chatted and ate some snacks together.

It was such a privilege to have Julie Harris a Licensed Clinical Social worker in attendance who shared resources and the amazing work she is doing for the Foster Community.

Please be sure to join us next time if you would like to bring friends that may be interested in joining or if you are not quite sure how your membership works.