Helping North Carolina Kinship Families Thrive
Caring for a relative child comes with unique joys and challenges, and you don’t have to navigate them alone. Creating a Family offers free resources and support for grandparents raising grandchildren and other relative caregivers. Whether you’re looking for answers, practical strategies, or a community that understands, we’re here to help you build a stronger, more supported family.
Legal Permanency Options
Free Legal Clinics
Have questions about custody, guardianship, adoption, power of attorney, or other legal issues related to raising a relative child? Our free monthly Legal Clinics connect kinship caregivers with experienced North Carolina family law attorneys who can provide general legal information and answer your questions in a supportive, virtual setting. Registration is free, but space is limited.
Healthy Blue Together NC
Healthy Blue Care Together families can access free virtual trainings through Kindred Village’s partnership with Creating a Family.
On Demand Courses:
These convenient, self-paced courses are designed to strengthen caregivers’ knowledge and skills as they support children and youth.
Prenatal Substance Exposure Workshops:
Children exposed to alcohol or drugs before birth often have unique brain-based challenges that can affect behavior, learning, emotional regulation, and daily life. This free training helps caregivers understand the impact of prenatal substance exposure and provides practical, trauma-informed strategies to better support their child’s development and strengthen family relationships.
Kinship Toolkits:
Practical information to help relative caregivers navigate legal options, parenting challenges, family relationships, support, and everyday caregiving needs.
Monthly Kinship Gatherings
Virtual Kinship Gathering
Our virtual Kinship Caregiver Series: Learning Together brings related topics together into short, focused 4–5-week series. Each series explores one theme, combining expert-based information, practical tools, and opportunities to connect and learn from other kinship caregivers. Choose the series that fits your family right now, build skills and understanding, and take home what you learn so you can start practicing right away.
This is not an ongoing commitment. You can join us for this 4–5 week online series, learn alongside other kinship caregivers, and focus on a theme that may be especially relevant to your family right now.
Many behaviors we see in our kids can feel confusing or challenging, but can make more sense when we understand what is happening beneath the surface. Our first series, “Beyond Behavior: Helping Kids Feel Safe, Regulated, and Connected,” meets online for 4 weeks beginning on Thursday, September 24th from 7-8:30 pm ET. In this series, kinship caregivers will explore connection, co-regulation, sensory needs, and food challenges. You will learn practical strategies to help children feel safer, calmer, and more connected.
Click here to register.