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Updated September 2026.
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- When family steps in, support should step up.
- I just became responsible for a child. What do I do first?
- Guided help: choose the situation you are dealing with.
- Help me find the right support.
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- PEI: Who do I call?
- Printable tools for caregivers, families and professionals.
- Kinship care questions, answered in plain language.
- Everything on Building GRAND-Families.
Guided help pathways
- Guided help: choose the situation you are dealing with.
- Child Protection & GACP guided help.
- Money & practical needs guided help.
- Legal authority guided help.
- School & health guided help.
- Parent contact & family safety guided help.
- Trauma & behaviour guided help.
- Teen years & turning 18 guided help.
- Caregiver wellbeing guided help.
Understanding the caregiving arrangement
- What is a grandfamily?
- Which kinship care pathway applies in PEI?
- Informal kinship care and GACP are not the same thing.
- If you are asked to take a child today.
- The PEI Grandparent and Alternative Care Provider Program, in plain language.
- What happens when Child Protection becomes involved?
- When a child returns to their parent.
Legal authority, safety and permanency
- Legal authority can affect nearly every practical part of caregiving.
- Going to Family Court in PEI: where a kinship caregiver starts.
- What does kin-friendly family-court practice look like in PEI?
- When a child tells you they have been abused.
- Family violence, child safety and kinship care.
- Permanency, guardianship and relative adoption.
- Passports, documents and travelling with a child you are raising.
- Child support and Maintenance Enforcement in PEI.
- What happens if the caregiver gets sick, ages or dies?
- How do I advocate for the child in my care without turning every meeting into a fight?
Money, benefits, housing and practical needs
- Financial help when you are raising someone else’s child.
- Canadian benefits for kinship caregivers in PEI.
- A child moved in. What do I need to tell CRA?
- What disability benefits should I check for a child in my care?
- Could the child in my care receive a CPP children's benefit?
- Taxes for kinship caregivers.
- Housing for grandfamilies in Prince Edward Island.
- Housing, food, child care and transportation after a child moves in.
- Work, caregiver leave and taking time off for a child.
- RESPs, the Canada Learning Bond and saving for education.
- Helping a child participate in sports, recreation and activities.
Mi'kmaq kinship families in Epekwitk
- Mi'kmaq kinship families should be able to start with Mi'kmaq-led support.
- Family PRIDE can support kinship and alternative caregivers before a family reaches crisis.
- Could Jordan's Principle help the child in my care?
- A safe placement should also protect the child's connection to family, community and culture.
- How can PEI professionals support Mi'kmaq kinship families without making them navigate every system alone?
Parental substance use & recovery
- When a parent's substance use changes who is raising the child.
- How can parental substance use affect the child I am raising?
- How do I help a child feel safe when the parent is still unpredictable?
- How do I support the parent's recovery without compromising the child?
- What should a kinship caregiver know about naloxone and overdose safety?
- Supporting kinship families affected by parental substance use.
FASD & neurodevelopmental support
- FASD in kinship care: support the brain, the child and the caregiver.
- Could this be FASD, and where do I start in PEI?
- When behaviour is hard, what might the child's brain be telling us?
- What helps a student with FASD succeed at school?
- How should we plan for adulthood when a young person has FASD?
- Supporting a child with FASD also means supporting the caregiver.
- What should professionals understand about FASD in a kinship family?
Protective factors & recovery after disruption
- What actually helps a child recover after family disruption?
- After a sudden family change, help the child understand what happens next.
- Help the child's body learn that daily life is becoming more predictable.
- A connected school can become an important protective anchor after family disruption.
- Help medical and dental visits feel safer for a child who has experienced trauma.
- Build protective factors around the child, not just services around the crisis.
Online safety & cyberviolence
- Online safety is part of everyday caregiving, not a separate world.
- A child's phone can be both a lifeline and a risk. Set it up for safety without breaking trust.
- An intimate image of a youth was shared or threatened. What should a caregiver do first?
- If a young person is being sextorted or groomed online, act quickly without blaming them.
- What if the sexual image of the young person is fake or AI-generated?
- When online harm involves school peers, the response cannot stop at the phone screen.
- How should a school or youth service respond when intimate images, sextortion or AI deepfakes affect a student?
Health, development and mental health
- Health care gets complicated quickly when the caregiver is not the child’s parent.
- Supporting a child with disability or additional needs.
- Caring for a baby or toddler in a grandfamily.
- When a child or teen may be suicidal or self-harming.
- When a parent has serious mental illness.
- Supporting a 2SLGBTQ+ or gender-diverse child in your care.
Trauma, identity and family relationships
- Trauma, grief and behaviour are often tangled together.
- Attachment, separation anxiety and difficult transitions.
- A safe placement should not make a child's other important relationships disappear.
- Managing contact with parents and other family members.
- Setting boundaries with the child's parent.
- When the child's parent is living in your home.
- When a parent is incarcerated.
- When a parent's death creates or changes a grandfamily.
- Keeping sibling relationships strong when children live apart.
- Helping a child understand why they live with you.
- Holidays, birthdays and family occasions in kinship care.
School, adolescence and adulthood
Caregiver wellbeing and community
- Care for the caregiver is part of care for the child.
- I am older and raising a child again. What should I plan for?
- A strong family needs a network around it.
- Kinship caregiving in rural Prince Edward Island.
- Newcomer and immigrant kinship families in PEI.
- Resources for Acadian and Francophone kinship families in PEI.
Programs, research and organization
- You should not have to figure this out alone.
- Programs designed around the realities of kinship family life.
- Current programs and ways to connect.
- Turn lived experience into better understanding, then into better support.
- Grandfamilies and kinship care in PEI: the facts.
- What do we still need to know about kinship care in PEI?
- How do we know whether a kinship support program actually helped?
- Impact, learning and annual highlights.
- GRAND-Families Camp 2026: evaluation and outcomes.
- Built from lived experience, for families carrying real responsibility.
- Help strengthen the network around grandfamilies.
- Tell us what you are trying to solve.
- Help put a stronger network around a kinship family.
Professional and system-change resources
- PEI Kinship-Friendly Practice Toolkit: practical tools for stronger kinship-friendly services.
- Training and presentations for PEI organizations supporting grandfamilies and kinship caregivers.
- Family structure affects how a child experiences your classroom, clinic or service.
- Understanding grandfamilies in Prince Edward Island.
- What would a kin-friendly PEI look like?
- Identifying and engaging kin is about more than finding a placement.
- How do we hear a child's voice without making the child choose?
- PEI Kinship Support Navigation.
- Refer a kinship caregiver without sending the whole case file.
- Do your forms recognize the family that is actually in front of you?
- What should professionals help a new kinship family resolve in the first 30 days?
- Discharge planning has to work in the home the child is actually returning to.
- What should a school do when a child has just moved into kinship care?
- How do you run a useful kinship caregiver support group without turning it into therapy?
- A referral should end when the caregiver connects, not when the link is sent.
- Trauma-informed communication should make the system clearer, not more complicated.
- How schools can support kinship families.
- How health professionals can support kinship caregivers.
- How employers can support kinship caregivers.
- How community organizations can welcome grandfamilies.
- How friends and family can support a grandfamily.