Kentucky Kinship Resource Center
The Kentucky Kinship Resource Center (KKRC) provides a continuum of services to meet the unique needs of kinship providers across the Commonwealth. Through comprehensive and creative training and education programs, innovative peer support and mentoring initiatives, and broad-based advocacy, KKRC provides the support and resources needed for kinship providers to safeguard the well-being of the children in their care.
Available Supports
If you have any questions about the KKRC, please contact Sheila Rentfrow at sheila.rentfrow@uky.edu.
Training Resource Center
by the numbers
6
Unique Centers & Labs
116%
Increase in FY20 extramural research funding
50,000+
Individuals served annually by Centers & Labs
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The Five Love Languages
The Five Love Languages
The 5 Love Languages introduces parents to the different love languages and discusses ways to use this information to strengthen partner/spouse relationships as well as relationships with children and teenagers. […]
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1 event,
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES)
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES)
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) come in many forms, from physical and mental abuse to neglect and household dysfunction. This training examines data from the ACE study, how early adversity as […]
4 events,
Blended Families: Parenting Children When They Don’t Get Along
Blended Families: Parenting Children When They Don’t Get Along
Blended Families: Parenting Children When They Don’t Get Along assists caregivers with identifying issues that children may experience that are unique to blended families. It offers strategies to create a […]
Nurturing Youth’s Cultural / Racial / Ethnic Needs And Sexual Orientation / Gender Identity
Nurturing Youth’s Cultural / Racial / Ethnic Needs And Sexual Orientation / Gender Identity
CORE TEEN (Critical On-going Resource Family Education) Session 4 Nurturing Youth’s Cultural / Racial / Ethnic Needs and Sexual Orientation / Gender Identity February 2, 2023 6:30 pm-9:00 pm EST […]
Connecting With Your Child While Correcting Behavior
Connecting With Your Child While Correcting Behavior
Connecting with Your Child While Correcting Behavior introduces parents to strategies to use to help them feel connected to children while correcting difficult behaviors. Parents will learn how to connect […]
ASK-VIP Support Group with Sheila
ASK-VIP Support Group with Sheila
ASK-VIP Support Groups are expressly designed to meet the needs of foster and adoptive parents in an inclusive, safe, and compassionate environment. They are led by seasoned facilitators who have […]
0 events,
0 events,
1 event,
Child Development: Ages 0-5
Child Development: Ages 0-5
Child Development 0-5 explores the typical milestones, or skills, that children develop from birth through age 5. It offers resources that caregivers can utilize to determine if a developmental screening […]
2 events,
KIN VIP Support Group With Arion Jett-Seals
KIN VIP Support Group With Arion Jett-Seals
This group will focus on the day to day issues involving relative and fictive kin care and will be shaped by the identified needs of group participants. Members of this […]
Fostering & Adopting At-Risk Children
Fostering & Adopting At-Risk Children
Fostering & Adopting At-Risk Children explores categories of at-risk behaviors among children and adolescents that may lead to negative consequences, like poor health, injury or death. It assists foster/adoptive parents […]
1 event,
KIN VIP Caring For Kinship Teens With Valerie Lebanion
KIN VIP Caring For Kinship Teens With Valerie Lebanion
Caring for Teens in Kinship is a new KIN VIP Support Group offering for caregivers who are caring for teenagers in kinship care. This group will focus on caring for […]
1 event,
Helping Foster & Adopted Children Transition To A New School
Helping Foster & Adopted Children Transition To A New School
Helping Foster & Adopted Children Transition to a New School will assist foster/adoptive parents in preparing to enroll a child in a new school. It will also provide practical tips […]
3 events,
Positive Discipline For Teenagers
Positive Discipline For Teenagers
Positive Discipline for Teenagers will provide foster/Adoptive Parents with effective tools that will guide them to positive discipline and communication with teenagers that are in their care/home. It discusses the […]
Understanding And Managing Youth’s Challenging Behaviors – Part 1
Understanding And Managing Youth’s Challenging Behaviors – Part 1
CORE TEEN (Critical On-going Resource Family Education) Session 5 Understanding and Managing Youth’s Challenging Behaviors – Part 1 February 9th, 2023 6:30 pm-8:30 pm EST Via Zoom Stephanie Spires 2 […]
KIN VIP Support Group With Mary Jo Dendy
KIN VIP Support Group With Mary Jo Dendy
This group is an opportunity for kinship caregivers to come together to find support, community, and resources in the care of relative and fictive children. This group will focus on […]
1 event,
Guiding Your Child Through Adolescence
Guiding Your Child Through Adolescence
Guiding Your Child Through Adolescence explores the physical and emotional changes that children undergo as they enter adolescence. Parents will discuss how parental roles change during this period of their […]
2 events,
A Child’s Education: Rights & Responsibilities
A Child’s Education: Rights & Responsibilities
Description A Child’s Education: Rights & Responsibilities will inform parents of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). The training informs foster and adoptive parents of the processes used to […]
Adoption: Understanding Your Commitment
Adoption: Understanding Your Commitment
Adoption: Understanding Your Commitment explores adoption dissolution. It addresses the impact on a child and family when adoption dissolution occurs and offers strategies and resources to prevent it. After completing […]
1 event,
Compulsive Lying
Compulsive Lying
Compulsive Lying explores why a child may lie compulsively. It identifies strategies and offers resources designed to assist children and their families dealing with this issue. After completing this training, […]
2 events,
Drugs: Things You Need to Know
Drugs: Things You Need to Know
Drugs: Things You Need to Know is designed to inform parents of the many different classifications of illicit drugs, as well as the current trends related to adolescent drug abuse. […]
Keeping Families Strong
Keeping Families Strong
Keeping Families Strong provides foster parents insight on how to keep partnerships, families and friendships strong while providing care to out of home children. It will also provide strategies for […]
3 events,
KIN VIP Support Group With Merlin Jones-Smalley
KIN VIP Support Group With Merlin Jones-Smalley
This group will focus on the day to day issues involving relative and fictive kin care and will be a place where each member can find support, resources, ideas, and […]
ASK-VIP LGBTQ+ Foster/Adoptive Parent Support Group
ASK-VIP LGBTQ+ Foster/Adoptive Parent Support Group
ASK-VIP LGBTQ+ Foster/Adoptive Parent Support Groups are specifically designed for foster/adoptive parents who identify as LGBTQ+ as well as foster/adoptive parents who are caring for children or teens who identify […]
Recognizing Signs Of Adoption Disruption And Dissolution
Recognizing Signs Of Adoption Disruption And Dissolution
Recognizing the Signs of Adoption Disruption & Dissolution will teach foster/adoptive parents about adoption disruption and dissolution by equipping them with information regarding factors that contribute to disruption/dissolution, statistics on […]
2 events,
Centers & Labs Monthly Meeting
Centers & Labs Monthly Meeting
Monthly Staff Meeting for Centers & Labs Training Resource Center Staff. The meeting is held the 3rd Wednesday of Each Month at the Training Resource Center. This is an in-person […]
Learning To Communicate: Developing Social Skills
Learning To Communicate: Developing Social Skills
Learning to Communicate: Developing Social Skills will equip parents to understand the process of communicating with children, teaching children to communicate with adults and peers, and developing interpersonal social skills. […]
3 events,
Understanding And Managing Youth’s Challenging Behaviors – Part 2
Understanding And Managing Youth’s Challenging Behaviors – Part 2
CORE TEEN (Critical On-going Resource Family Education) Session 6 Understanding and Managing Youth’s Challenging Behaviors – Part 2 February 16th, 2023 6:30 pm-9:00 pm EST Via Zoom Stephanie Spires 2.5 […]
Caring For Deaf/Hard Of Hearing Children Support Group
Caring For Deaf/Hard Of Hearing Children Support Group
ASK-VIP Support Group for Foster/Adoptive Parents Caring for Deaf/Hard of Hearing Children provides a welcoming, safe environment for foster and adoptive parents to share resources, concerns, ask questions, and connect […]
What To Ask When Called About A Placement
What To Ask When Called About A Placement
What to Ask When Called About a Placement will help foster and adoptive parents gather information before accepting a placement of a new child. During the training, participants will discuss […]
0 events,
1 event,
Learning Your Child Has A Disability
Learning Your Child Has A Disability
Learning Your Child Has a Disability aims to help foster and adoptive parents understand the unique emotions of discovering or confirming a child in their care has a disability. This […]
2 events,
ASK-VIP Support Group With Kay
ASK-VIP Support Group With Kay
ASK-VIP Support Groups are expressly designed to meet the needs of foster and adoptive parents in an inclusive, safe, and compassionate environment. They are led by seasoned facilitators who have […]
Confidentiality In Foster Care
Confidentiality In Foster Care
Confidentiality in Foster Care explores the importance of protecting the confidentiality of children in care. It offers strategies for how sensitive information about children in care can be communicated in […]
3 events,
KIN VIP Support Group With Arion Jett-Seals
KIN VIP Support Group With Arion Jett-Seals
This group will focus on the day to day issues involving relative and fictive kin care and will be shaped by the identified needs of group participants. Members of this […]
Preparing Children For Permanency
Preparing Children For Permanency
Preparing Children for Permanency equips foster/adoptive parents with strategies to prepare children for permanency. It offers insight on the thoughts and emotional reactions that a child transitioning to permanency may […]
Healthy Boundaries In Teenage Relationships
Healthy Boundaries In Teenage Relationships
Healthy Boundaries in Teenage Relationships explores healthy and unhealthy dating behaviors. It is designed to assist caregivers in identifying warning signs that a teen may be involved in an abusive […]
4 events,
Kinship Live Virtual Webinar Training-“Custody and Adoption-What does it all mean and What are my rights?”
Kinship Live Virtual Webinar Training-“Custody and Adoption-What does it all mean and What are my rights?”
For Kinship caregivers, taking care of a kinship child involves working with the court system-which can sometimes be very scary! From Guardianship, to Temporary Custody, to Permanent Custody, even De […]
Healing After A Foster Child Leaves Your Home
Healing After A Foster Child Leaves Your Home
Healing After a Foster Child Leaves Your Home will equip foster parents understand, cope with and heal from the unique pain of a foster child leaving their home. It offers […]
KIN VIP Caring For Kinship Teens With Valerie Lebanion
KIN VIP Caring For Kinship Teens With Valerie Lebanion
Caring for Teens in Kinship is a new KIN VIP Support Group offering for caregivers who are caring for teenagers in kinship care. This group will focus on caring for […]
Attachment & Bonding With Your Foster & Adopted Child
Attachment & Bonding With Your Foster & Adopted Child
Attachment & Bonding with your Foster & Adopted Child equips parents to enhance their relationship with foster/adopted children by teaching them the basics about bonding and attachment. This training also […]
3 events,
Preventing Child Abuse: Types, Signs, And Symptoms
Preventing Child Abuse: Types, Signs, And Symptoms
Preventing Child Abuse: Types, Signs & Symptoms will inform parents of the definition of child abuse and ways it can be prevented. It provides descriptions and statistics of different types […]
Myths & Realities Of Foster Care & Adoption
Myths & Realities Of Foster Care & Adoption
Myths & Realities of Foster Care & Adoption enables parents to identify myths and realities related to foster care and adoption. After completing this training, participants will be able to: […]
Helping Your Child Succeed In School
Helping Your Child Succeed In School
Helping Your Child to Succeed in School will increase the ability of foster/adoptive parents to understand educational challenges faced by foster/adopted children. It will give resource parents the tools for […]
2 events,
A New Suitcase Of Parenting Knowledge And Skills
A New Suitcase Of Parenting Knowledge And Skills
CORE TEEN (Critical On-going Resource Family Education) Session 7 A New Suitcase of Parenting Knowledge and Skills February 23, 2023 6:30 pm-8:30 pm EST Via Zoom Carla Jordan, MS 2 […]
Foster/Adoptive Parents Of Teens Support Group
Foster/Adoptive Parents Of Teens Support Group
ASK-VIP Support Group for Foster/Adoptive Parents of Teens is specifically designed for foster/adoptive parents who are caring for teenagers or those considering fostering and/or adopting teenagers. This support group offers […]
1 event,
Helping Your Child Make Healthy & Positive Choices: Talking To Teens & Preteens
Helping Your Child Make Healthy & Positive Choices: Talking To Teens & Preteens
Helping Your Child Make Healthy & Positive Choices: Talking to Teens & Preteens will teach foster and adoptive parents the importance of open and ongoing dialogue with their preteen or […]
0 events,
1 event,
Developmental Stages & Children’s Responses To Grief
Developmental Stages & Children’s Responses To Grief
Developmental Stages & Children’s Responses to Grief defines grief and explores how children process and express grief at different developmental stages. It offers insight into the unique experiences of grief […]
3 events,
Sibling Attachment & Adoption
Sibling Attachment & Adoption
Sibling Attachment & Adoption provides parents with tools to promote healthy sibling relationships in foster and adoptive families. Parents will explore different ways in which families are formed and learn […]
Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew
Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew
Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew will equip foster and adoptive parents to understand the thoughts and feelings children who are adopted may experience. It offers strategies […]
Services & Support For Foster & Adoptive Families
Services & Support For Foster & Adoptive Families
Services & Support for Foster & Adoptive Families will inform parents about resources available to individuals with intellectual disabilities through the Michelle P. Waiver Program, which allows eligible individuals to […]
2 events,
KIN VIP Support Group With Merlin Jones-Smalley
KIN VIP Support Group With Merlin Jones-Smalley
This group will focus on the day to day issues involving relative and fictive kin care and will be a place where each member can find support, resources, ideas, and […]
ASK-VIP LGBTQ+ Foster/Adoptive Parent Support Group
ASK-VIP LGBTQ+ Foster/Adoptive Parent Support Group
ASK-VIP LGBTQ+ Foster/Adoptive Parent Support Groups are specifically designed for foster/adoptive parents who identify as LGBTQ+ as well as foster/adoptive parents who are caring for children or teens who identify […]
1 event,
Adoption: Understanding Your Commitment
Adoption: Understanding Your Commitment
Adoption: Understanding Your Commitment explores adoption dissolution. It addresses the impact on a child and family when adoption dissolution occurs and offers strategies and resources to prevent it. After completing […]
2 events,
Child Development: Ages 0-5
Child Development: Ages 0-5
Child Development 0-5 explores the typical milestones, or skills, that children develop from birth through age 5. It offers resources that caregivers can utilize to determine if a developmental screening […]
ASK-VIP Support Group with Sheila
ASK-VIP Support Group with Sheila
ASK-VIP Support Groups are expressly designed to meet the needs of foster and adoptive parents in an inclusive, safe, and compassionate environment. They are led by seasoned facilitators who have […]
1 event,
Teaching Growth Mindset To Children
Teaching Growth Mindset To Children
Teaching Growth Mindset to Children introduces parents to the two types of mindsets and how beneficial it is for parents to help their children develop a growth mindset. This training will […]
