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Join The holiday season is often painted as a time of joy, celebration, and togetherness—but for kinship caregivers, it can also bring stress, emotional triggers, and the pressure of trying to create “normal” in the midst of change. Children in your care may be navigating big feelings, memories, and expectations, all while you’re working to build new traditions and strengthen your family relationships.

This webinar is designed to support you through this season. Together, we’ll explore common holiday triggers for children who have experienced loss or trauma, discuss why meaningful traditions matter, and share realistic strategies for creating connection and calm in your home. We’ll also focus on you—because your well-being is a vital part of your family’s healing.

We’ll talk about:

1. • • Recognizing holiday-related triggers and how to respond with understanding and connection
     • Why traditions help children heal and how to build new ones that fit your family now
     • Simple, sustainable self-care for caregivers during the busiest time of year
     • Creating a holiday environment that feels safe, joyful, and grounded

You deserve support—and so does your family. Join us to learn practical tools that help bring more peace, warmth, and joy into your home this holiday season.

About the Trainer:

Angela Jamison, MSW, CSW, LSW  is an adoptive mother of five in the Northern Bluegrass region. After fifteen years as a foster parent, she pursued her Master of Social Work from the University of Kentucky, graduating in December of 2023 with her MSW and a Trauma Responsive Practice Certificate. Following graduation, she obtained her CSW from the state of Kentucky and her LSW from the state of Ohio. She is passionate about sharing her love and knowledge of mental health, foster / kinship care and adoption with families and does so by partnering with Children’s Mental Health Resource Center as their Training and Outreach Director, Foster Care and Adoption Specialist as well as running her own nonprofit aimed at reducing stigma, educating the greater society, and empowering individuals in their foster, adoptive, and mental health journeys. With her children – four teenagers and a five-year-old – she loves traveling, reading and going to the movies. She also loves regular date nights with her husband, trying new restaurants, and getting pedicures!

 

Please note: Although this LIVE webinar is designed to be an informative, educational, and helpful resource for kinship families caring for relative or fictive kin children, anyone is welcome to attend including foster parents, professionals, students, or community members.

It is our hope that by participating in this LIVE webinar, attendees will receive educational and helpful information. However, it is important to note that this webinar is not approved for foster parent training credit or CEU’s as attendance is not monitored during the webinar event.