DiscoverAdoption Wise#233: Maintaining Compassion as a Kinship Provider with Nakole Wooley
#233: Maintaining Compassion as a Kinship Provider with Nakole Wooley

#233: Maintaining Compassion as a Kinship Provider with Nakole Wooley

Update: 2023-11-28
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Kinship care, the full-time care of a child by relatives, comes with many added relationship dynamics and complexities. In this episode Nakole Wooley shares how they navigate the challenges of kinship care, and the importance of overcommunication and compassion in the process.

Nakole and her husband, Brandon, have been married 15 years. They are raising six kids including three who joined their family through kinship care. She is a military veteran and a licensed master social worker in Missouri. She and Brandon are also Cultivate Connection Facilitators.

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#233: Maintaining Compassion as a Kinship Provider with Nakole Wooley

#233: Maintaining Compassion as a Kinship Provider with Nakole Wooley

Lisa C. Qualls and Melissa Corkum