FOR PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY FAMILIES: Kinship Support Group

FOR PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY FAMILIES: Kinship Support Group

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Date Jan 15, 2024
Time 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Cost FREE
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Are you a Prince George’s County Kinship Family? Register to share feelings, experience, resources, and comfort from one another!

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This support group is for kinship caregivers, including grandparents, extended family members or close family friend, who are providing care for children. Families will be able to come together to share feelings, experience, resources, and comfort from one another. We want families to be able to connect with one another, learn new strategies and have a safe place to talk about what is on their minds and how they will be “surviving the holidays.” We want to hear from you about what has worked and what has not worked during the holidays and hope to offer some ways to manage what might be difficult. We will discuss and share tips with kinship caregivers about the importance of self‐care, and how it relates to parenting and managing stress Group will be led by Chiara Jones and Shontelle Ramsay of C.A.S.E.

Facilitators

 

Chiara Jones

Chiara Jones, MSW

Case Manager, Baltimore City and Prince George’s County Outreach Liaison

Chiara earned her Bachelor of Science in Women’s Studies from Towson University and her Master of Social Work from University of Maryland Baltimore. Her education and career have always focused on her passion for working with children and families and has been working in the field of foster care and adoption for over eight years. Chiara has been working with C.A.S.E since November 2015. Before taking on the new role as Case Manager, Growing Together Campaign (GTC) Baltimore City, Chiara held the role of a Wendy’s Wonderful Recruiter and worked in our previous 3L program assisting foster youth who were aging out of the foster care system in Montgomery County, Maryland.

 

Shontelle Ramsay

Shontelle Ramsay

MSW Intern, Northern Post Adoption Consortium

Prior to interning with C.A.S.E., Shontelle worked at National Association on Drug Abuse Problems, located in New York City, where she provided leadership and staff oversight of the Outreach Enrollment Department. She developed and managed formal partnerships consisting of NYC Hospitals, Government Agencies, Primary Care Clinics, Health Centers, Specialty Clinics, SUD Outpatient/Inpatient Facilities, Mental Health Outpatient/Inpatient Facilities, and Criminal Justice Agencies. Shontelle Ramsay holds a BS in Human Services from NYC College of Technology and an MPA from Metropolitan College of New York. She is currently pursuing an MSW from Walden University. The opportunity to work with families has never presented itself to Shontelle and interning with C.A.S.E. is Shontelle’s first formal experience in the adoption, foster care, and kinship field.