Parent and Child Health: Substance Use Awareness Virtual June Conference Series 2025

Tuesday, Jun 10, 2025 • 12 pm to 1 pm

Virtual

Training Sessions

Raising Grandchildren: Understanding and Supporting the Caregiving Grandparent

Abstract

Pennsylvania, approximately 235,000 grandparents are responsible for their grandchildren. For every child being raised by kin in foster care, there are 10 more being raised by kin out of foster care. This training will discuss how grandparents come to raise their grandchildren, balancing supporting adult children with raising the children, and the unique dynamics of raising one’s grandchildren. Furthermore, the training will address ways to support these caregiving grandparents encountered in one’s professional and personal lives.

Objectives

  • Clarify the role of formal an informal kinship care and the ways in which these situations arise.
  • Recognize and understand the dynamics of kinship care and the impact these have on a caregiver.
  • Generate ways to support kinship caregivers in their professional and personal lives.

Accreditation

PHYSICIAN (CME)

The University of Pittsburgh designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

NURSING (CNE)

A maximum of 1.0 nursing contact hours will be awarded. Participants will be able to claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the program.

SOCIAL WORK

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, University of Pittsburgh is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. University of Pittsburgh maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.0 continuing education credits.

Psychologist (APA)

Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs.

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