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Children who experience abuse and neglect, often face significant challenges that hinder their ability to mature, socialize, and function as adults. Many adults struggling to overcome adversity can trace their hardships back to a childhood trauma. St. Catherine's Child and family service strives to address these challenges early in life. Serving at-risk children and youths - as we have for more than 135 years - remains a critical part of our work.

In honor of National Child Abuse Prevention Month, St. Catherine's continues the conversation surrounding child abuse. Spreading awareness is a critical step in reducing and preventing these tragedies from occurring to the children in our communities. For more information on how to prevent child abuse, visit: https://preventchildabuse.org/resources/ten-ways-to-help-prevent-child-abuse/ To learn more about St. Catherine's Child Services, visit: https://www.st-cath.org/child-services Check us out! Website: www.st-cath.org Facebook: @StCatherinesCenterforChildren Twitter: @StCathCenter Instagram: @stcatherinescenterforchildren #ChildAbusePrevention #ChildAbuseStatistics #HumanServices #Prevention #SpreadAwareness #BluePinwheels #Pinwheels

Welcome to "Hear Us Out"– St. Catherine’s Center for Children’s think-tank podcast designed to spark and frame an ongoing conversation around the beauty, hardships, rewards, and untold stories of social service workers. This first installment “Let’s Care About Kinship Care” covers topics around the #KinshipCare relationship of grandparents, aunts and uncles, adult siblings or cousins (sometimes a close family friend) raising a relative’s child. Series: Let’s Care About Kinship Care S1:E1 – Like a Virtual Family S1:E2 – Kinship Caregivers in MTV’s “Teen Moms 2” S1:S3 – Why Isn’t Kinship Care Talked About? Kinship Care is not a new concept but it is a relatively new social services resource. Unlike #FosterCare or other child protective services where caregivers have months or even years of planning, preparation and training, kinship caregivers are often appointed under duress or emergency family circumstances. It is common for kinship caregivers to face unique barriers specific to their family circumstances that can hinder access to and eligibility for support. Many kinship caregivers are unaware that they are in a kinship care relationship and there are resources are available. If you are raising a grandchild, niece or nephew, younger sister or bother, you are a kinship caregiver. Learn More About Kinship Care at St. Catherine’s: Kinship Care: https://www.st-cath.org/kinship-care St. Catherine’s Center for Children: https://www.st-cath.org/

St. Catherine’s Center for Children offers a comprehensive range of human services. We provide society's most vulnerable with supportive child and family care, community-based programs, and homeless services. It serves us all when members of a community have the support and stability in their lives to have hope for tomorrow. Our services are designed to address those needs in our children, families, and adults that we all have for human connection, security and safety, dignity and respect, and to feel part of something greater than our circumstances. This is part of a philosophy that St. Catherine's has embraced of 'unconditional community,' wherein no one is left out because of where they live, their conditions, or their current and on-going situations. #socialservice #human #socialwork #support #community To learn more, visit: www.st-cath.org