September 27-28, 2004
Holiday Inn, Mart Plaza
Chicago, IL
COMPLETED
The purpose of this conference was to help
service providers and caregivers understand the unique psychosocial
issues affecting children residing in kinship care due to
parental substance abuse. 
The conference identiied the children's strengths,
the benefits, and challenges of kinship care, and useful
strategies and/or interventions for working with these children
and their families. The issues surrounding kinship care
and substance abuse were addressed from a child-focused,
family-centered perspective.
