What Caregivers Need to Know

What Caregivers Need to Know offers practical, research-supported guidance for foster, adoptive, and kinship caregivers, parents, and professionals helping children through behavioral challenges, school difficulties, and involvement with service systems.

Written by Richard A. Graves, M.A., M.A.R., CADC, the book helps readers recognize unmet needs, address harmful conduct, navigate educational supports and IEPs, and organize dependable assistance. Its school-to-justice framework examines how families, schools, communities, and agencies can work together to interrupt escalating problems.

Understanding a child’s circumstances and holding them accountable belong together. This guide gives caregivers concrete examples and useful questions to help put that principle into practice.

Digital PDF download — $10.99. No physical book will be shipped.