A5 - Effective Outreach and Engagement of Birth Fathers, Male Kinship Caregivers and Male Foster Parents

This workshop will explore the role of men serving as caregivers. By working with the emotional and psychological experience of men, we work to stabilize the children in their care. The presentation will include techniques for support system development, with special focus on the merits of group therapy, and the skills that men can use in their interactions with children in their care. We will explore how gender, culture, race, and ethnicity affect the experiences of the children in kinship care as well as experiences to trauma, loss and separation, fear of intimacy, and inability to form trusting relationships.

Presenter(s): Alan-Michael Graves, Anthony Young and Andre Feijoo, Children's Institute, Los Angeles, CA