This facilitator's guide serves as a framework for a comprehensive 6-module, 9-session curriculum, providing kinship caregivers with 27 hours of information and support related to kinship care. Sessions are designed to facilitate interaction and the sharing of experiences and support among participants. Meetings utilize a task-based, strengths-oriented approach to learning whereby participants each develop a comprehensive individualized action plan for accessing needed resources and meeting identified family needs. The facilitator's guide is organized in 5 parts. Part 1 describes the program and the desired outcomes, including how to connect the parent meetings with the kinship family assessment. Part 2 provides information to help facilitators prepare for the meetings, including qualifications and competencies of facilitators, roles and responsibilities of facilitators, and establishing a positive environment. Part 3 provides information on using the guide and the accompanying audiovisual materials. Part 4, the bulk of the guide, provides the following information for each of 9 meetings: (1) meeting agenda; (2) list of resources, transparencies, and materials; (3) meeting goals and objectives; and (4) instructions for meeting activities. Topics addressed in the meetings are: (1) introduction: a tradition of caring, introducing participants to the program and to one another and providing an opportunity for completing an individualized assessment; (2) understanding the child welfare system; (3) supporting healthy development and managing loss; (4) identifying and meeting special needs for children who have been separated from their parents and might have experienced trauma and loss; (5) providing guidance and discipline; (6) maintaining family connections; (7) connecting children to safe, nurturing, lifelong relationships; (8) the kinship experience: family change, providing strategies for dealing with changes that occur in the family as a result of kinship care; and (9) finding and using resources to meet the caregivers and children's needs. (KB)