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amilies eeds nderstanding KINSHIP CARE SPRING/SUMMER 2010 Kinship care represents the most 86,000 children are being raised by desirable out-of-home placement their grandparents in Ohio. option for children who cannot live Regardless of the type of kinship care with their parents. It offers family arrangement, the kinship caregivers’ preservation and the greatest level of voluntary commitment to devote their stability by allowing children to lives to the children in their care is a maintain their sense of belonging. It courageous, life-changing decision. enhances their ability to identify with Kinship Permanency Incentive is their family’s culture and traditions. designed to promote a permanent Kinship Care refers to a temporary or commitment by the kinship caregiver, permanent arrangement in which a who becomes a guardian and relative or any non-relative adult who custodian over a minor child, who has a long standing relationship or would otherwise be unsafe or at risk bond with the child and/or family has of harm if the child remained in their taken over the full-time, substitute own home. The Kinship Permanency care of a child whose parents are Incentive program provides time- unable or unwilling to do so for limited incentive payments to families reasons such as death or chronic caring for their kin. For more illness (e.g., HIV/AIDS), substance information, please contact your local abuse, incarceration, domestic public children services agency or call violence, child abuse and neglect, 1-800-886-3537 (Option 4). teenage pregnancy, unemployment, poverty, and other problems. Kinship Relatives Caring for Children: care includes those relationships Ohio Resource Guide is a statewide established through informal resource guide providing information arrangement, a legal custody or about the availability of programs for guardianship order, a relative foster kinship providers through local care placement or a kinship adoption. agencies and can be requested by The 2000 U.S. Census reports that calling 1-866-886-3537 (Option 4) or www.odjfs.state.oh.us/forms. Ohio Coalition for the Education of Children with Disabilities 165 West Center Street, Suite 302 * Marion, Ohio 43302 * 1-800-374-2806 BOOK REVIEWS whose lives they change. Therapy Dogs is part of the Dog Heroes Series. LET’S LOOK AT COLORS Ages 5 and up. By Shirley Barber’s I LOVED YOU BEFORE YOU From the work mice painting the toy fire WERE BORN engine red to Queen Kitty growing beautiful purple pansies children will see By Anne Bowen and learn the different shades of red, A loving grandmother eagerly awaits the orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. arrival of her grandchild. She dreams of At the back of the book, there is a the baby’s soft sighs, sweet smells, and special color pallet showing the names tiny toes, and imagines the infant of the colors featured in the illustrations. smiling, rolling over and crawling for Children can use this pallet to help them the first time. Finally the baby arrives identify the many different shades of and Grandma is ready with a very color in each picture. Ages 6 months special message. (reading to them) thru 8 years. Tender and touching, Anne Bowen’s I ZINNIA AND DOT LOVED YOU BEFORE YOU WERE By Lisa Campbell Ernst BORN perfectly conveys the magical anticipation of birth and the joy a new Zinnia and Dot should be friends. After child brings to a family. Greg Shed’s all, they sit in the same henhouse day rich, luminescent paintings capture the after day. But instead they fight about love and wonder of this blessed event. whose eggs are more lovely, more Ages 3 to 8 years brilliant, more perfect. Then one day a weasel steals their eggs, leaving behind only one prize specimen. Whose egg is it? Who will get to sit on it first? And who will the chick look like when it is hatched? Can two cranky hens learn the value of cooperation before they drive JUST FOR FUN each other crazy? Ages 3 and up. In your whole life, your mouth will THERAPY DOGS make about 10,000 gallons of spit. By Linda Tagliaferro That’s enough to fill a giant swimming pool! Some of the kids at the school were having trouble learning to talk – until Every person on earth has a different Ozzie came along. Ozzie is a therapy fingerprint. We all have different tongue dog. He knows just what to do to help prints too. kids calm down, so that it’s easier for If you are skiing in Sweden and get them to learn. After spending time with hungry for a Happy Meal, no worries; Ozzie and his human partner, Lee, many Sweden has a ski through McDonalds! of the kids at the school had learned to speak in full sentences! Look inside to And . A cow needs to drink four find out more about dogs like Ozzie, gallons of water to make one gallon of who are special heroes to the people milk. (parentcenter.babycenter.com) FAMILY FUN (flyers, menus or paper placemats, exotic candy wrappers) to decorate the pages. Top Ten Ways to Explore a City 7. Buy postcards of major attractions. These tips can help your family get to Many foreign postcards are sharper, know a new city – or even explore the more colorful, and have a greater hidden treasures in your own hometown. perspective than most amateurs can 1. Take a city bus/trolley tour. Get shoot. settled in your hotel, grab a quick bite, 8. Pass up souvenir shops and and then buy tickets for a city tour. investigate the local hardware, grocery Within an hour you’ll get a “feel” for the and department stores for unique items. layout of the city and an idea of the (This one may be difficult with very places you may want to visit. young children). 2. Explore one museum in depth. 9. Tear out the guide book pages that Huge museums can be overwhelming, you’ll need that day, instead of lugging especially with kids in tow, plan on around a large touring book. Consider spending two hours max, taking in the buying a nice book when you leave that areas of most interest to you. Stop in the captures the scenes and memories of café for a breather and buy high-quality your trip. postcards and prints at the museum shop. Some museums even have kids’ gift 10. When travelling abroad, use shops, with educational toys, games and simple foreign phrases well and often. books. Even if you know only “Hello” and “Good-bye” in the host language, effort 3. Visit the botanical garden or local will be appreciated by the “natives” and park. Even if it’s rainy, you’ll enjoy the may even encourage them to use their respite of an unhurried walk through two words of English in return! tranquil green space. It’s rejuvenating (www.familyeducation.com) for the whole family, and a great place for kids to run around and let off steam. And while you are traveling try these FUN road trip activities with your 4. Go on a historic walking tour and family on vacation . get to know one part of the city really well. Tour guides can suggest good Counting cars – have each person pick a places to stop for a snack or meal, along color and count as many cars of that with places of interest that appeal to color as they see on the road. The first families. player to reach a predetermined number is the winner. 5. Use your hotel concierge. He’ll know the good local restaurants, when License Plate Name – Play as a team or the shops open, how to find public compete against each other. As you transport and best bets for kids. drive, look for license plates from the different states. See how many different 6. Keep a daily journal. You’ll be states you can find in a present amazed at how quickly you forget what timeframe. (A map of the U.S. is you did each day of that long-awaited helpful) vacation. Young children can draw pictures or collect interesting scraps Alphabet Game – Play as a team or B. Make a healthful fruit milk shake by compete against each other. Make a list blending one cup of frozen berries, one of all of the letters in the alphabet. Look cup of milk and a half banana. for objects along the way that start with C. Pretend together. If you were an ant a particular letter. Cross each letter off . a cloud . a squirrel . where until you have completed the entire would you go? What would you see? alphabet. (www.familyeducation.com) What would you do at night, in the FAMILY PROJECT morning? Bedside Caddy D. Make ice cubes from fruit juice. Add them to water for your child to What you’ll need: drink instead of soda. Scissors And don’t forget to play the outdoor Ruler games you learned as a child. Do you Felt remember Shadow Tag, Stoop Tag, Red Glue Light-Green Light, Simon Says and/or Fabric paint Red Rover? Teach them to your child. Large cardboard rectangle (Parent Partners Empower) How to make it: 1. Cut out an 8 ½ inch square piece of felt. Place it on top of an 8 ½ inch by 11 ½ inch piece of felt, matching the bottom corners. 2. Fold down a 1 inch section on the top piece and glue it in place. To form a FUN WEBSITES pocket, stitch or glue the side and bottom edges of both pieces where they meet.