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Parenting & Family Support

Family Response

Family Response: Immediate, in-person support and stabilization for children or youth and their parents/caregivers

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Compassion Closet

Shop For your Family: All items are provided at no cost, thanks to our amazing donors! Browse for what you need, and place your order. 

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National Foster Parent Association Training Institute

Learning for Foster, Adoptive, and Kinship Parents: Quality courses that are always available, always free and designed just for you.

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Child Welfare Information Gateway

Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth: A Guide for Foster Parents

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Trans Student Educational Resources

Human Sexuality Terminology: Terms are always changing in the LGBTQ+ community. This list will be updated as often as possible to keep up with the rapid proliferation of queer and trans language.

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The Gender Wheel

The Gender Wheel: A way of understanding bodies and gender that is nature-based, decolonized and holistic.

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Tutus & Tennis Shoes

The Beauty and Science of Black Hair Care

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Hair Love

Hair Love: Oscar®-winning animated short film from Matthew A. Cherry, tells the heartfelt story of an African American father learning to do his daughter’s hair for the first time.

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Learning for Justice

Black Minds Matter: Interrupting school practices that disregard the mental health of Black youth.

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Children's Home Society of Minnesota 

Adverse Childhood Experiences: Discussing Adverse Childhood Experiences including abuse, neglect, mental illness in the family, use of substances or alcohol in the family, domestic violence, having a parent in jail, separation or divorce, or death of a parent or sibling.

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Minnesota Kinship Navigation

Minnesota's Kinship Navigation Tool: This Kinship Navigation Tool is a collaborative effort on behalf of the Kinship Working Group from AspireMN. 

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Children's Bureau 

Parenting in Racially and Culturally Diverse Adoptive Families

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National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

Browse NCMEC's Courses: Every child deserves a safe childhood.

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Blood Memory

Blood Memory: A story of removal and return

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Big Life Journals

Big Life Journals: Growth Minded Parenting Coaching

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Love Them First

Love Them First: Lessons From Lucy Laney Elementary-  Minnesota has the largest achievement gap between black and white children in the United States. This film follows the determination of a charismatic north Minneapolis school principal, Mauri Melander Friestleben, as she sets out to undo history.

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AMAZE Org

AMAZE Org: Real sex ed info in fun, animated videos that give you all the answers you actually want to know about sex, your body and relationships.

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The Gender Unicorn

The Gender Unicorn: An introductory conversation on gender and expression for kids and adults alike

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The Gender Wheel

The Pronoun Protocol: 12 agreements with the intention of creating a way of speaking that fundamentally includes everybody all the time and interrupts the cycle of gender stereotypes and assumptions.

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