Education Advocacy Resources for Kinship Families

During our October kinship family support dinner, guest speaker Nicky Wingate spoke about her experience supporting and advocating for children in a school setting.

This is the third and final post on what she shared.

See Part 1, 504s and IEPs: Advocating for Your Child’s Educational Supports, and Part 2, Recommended Reading for Kinship Families.

Kinship caregivers who want more support and information to help advocate for their children at school may want to take advantage of the following resources:

1. Advocacy31Nine
   This Arizona-based organization provides advocacy services to children in foster care (including kinship care!) and educational support to their caregivers. They recently launched a FREE e-course called …

2. Navigating the Maze of Special Education
   This course is a one-hour video course with 13 lessons to cover a variety of aspects of navigating special education, as a caregiver. Advocacy31Nine partnered with Family Care Learning to create the course.

3. Understood
   This website is described as a lifelong guide for those who learn and think differently. It contains great articles and information that can help kids and families think about needed support.