 Get involved with our kinship support groups!
Our peer support groups provide a supportive and trusted space for any kinship carer to come along to, where they can chat to other carers in similar situations, and provide support and advice to one another on their kinship journey.
We would love to see more of our carers at our peer support groups. You can also take this opportunity to let us know what support, advice and training you feel would best suit you.
We would love you to come along to our friendly kinship support groups:
Kinship support group (Cumnock)
Monday 2 October, 10am – 12pm
Monday 6 November, 10am – 12pm
Monday 4 December, 10am – 12pm
Netherthird Community Centre, Cumnock
Kinship support group (Kilmarnock)
Tuesday 3 October, 10am – 12pm
Tuesday 7 November, 10am – 12pm
Tuesday 5 December, 10am – 12pm
WG13 West George Street, Kilmarnock
Training and events for your diary
 Therapeutic play
Following on from the success of our trauma training provided by East Ayrshire Council's wonderful Debbie Willet, we are hosting a training session on therapeutic play.
We greatly appreciated the feedback we received from the trauma training and have taken on board all your comments, and done our best to incorporate them in to the upcoming training on therapeutic play.
Therapeutic play
Wednesday 11 October, 10am – 2.30pm
WG13 West George Street, Kilmarnock
 Training Opportunities from KCASS
The Kinship Care Advice Service for Scotland (KCASS) provides free, confidential, impartial advice to Kinship Families and professionals working with them.
Register to book your place on their training sessions:
Managing parental contact in kinship care
Wednesday 4 October, 10am – 12pm
Register
Growing up is never easy
Wednesday 8 November, 10am – 11am
Register
Mind, body connection
Tuesday 14 November, 10am – 11am
Register
Understanding anger
Wednesday 22 November, 10am – 11am
Register
Conflict triggers and response styles
Tuesday 28 November, 10am – 11am
Register
Kinship care resources
Video - Kinship Care Kitchen Conversations: conflict
Broadcaster Gary Robertson explores the topic of family conflict with kinship carers Maureen and Angela, along with helpline call taker Jackie.
They explore ways to cope with feelings, the need to protect children from feeling responsible for any sources of family conflict, and where kinship carers can get help and support.
 Video - Starting a kinship care support group
"You, me, a kettle and biscuits" - kinship carers from Grandparents Parenting Again in Midlothian share their experiences of belonging to a kinship care support group and give advice on how to get a group established.
Video - Growing up in kinship care: young people's voices
What's it like growing up in kinship care? Four young people told us.
 Podcast - Recovery in the family
Podcast host Taylor shares an interview with two amazing women who are part of a kinship carers group. As the interview progresses, the women share their personal experiences of how addiction can affect parents and children for the rest of their lives.
As heart-breaking as their stories are, the women share how their circumstances have shaped them and are allowing them to make a difference to the lives of children affected by addiction through their roles as kinship carers.
This episode is also available to listen on YouTube.
Support - Helping Hands
Provides free items to help with family life, including clothes, games, toys, books, food and household items. A warm food hub will also be available offering free hot food and drinks.
Saturday 21 October, 12pm - 2pm
Saturday 18 November, 12pm - 2pm
Saturday 16 December, 12pm - 2pm
NWKLEUS, Kirkton Road, Kilmarnock, KA3 2DF
Links - Useful contacts
A list of contacts for services and support that may help you. If you can't find what you're looking for, please get in touch for advice.
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We know that our East Ayrshire carers are the real experts in kinship care and have a wealth of knowledge and experience we’d like to share with other kinship carers.
 We would be delighted to receive pictures, stories and suggestions for future editions.
You can email us or post us anything you’d like included:
Kinship Team - Kinship Newsletter
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Kilmarnock
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