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For family members, friends and others taking on the role of parenting a child under the age of 18, due to incarceration, death of a parent, substance misuse, illness, etc in order to keep the child out of foster care. Kinship navigators provide resource navigation, emotional support, education, and guidance, and offer information, referral, and follow-up services to promote independence and enhance the well-being of the families they serve. Navigators can help with matters of healthcare, education, childcare, financial assistance, and legal questions about protecting your rights and the child’s well-being.

For family members, friends and others taking on the role of parenting a child under the age of 18, due to incarceration, death of a parent, substance misuse, illness, etc in order to keep the child out of foster care. Kinship navigators provide resource navigation, emotional support, education, and guidance, and offer information, referral, and follow-up services to promote independence and enhance the well-being of the families they serve. Navigators can help with matters of healthcare, education, childcare, financial assistance, and legal questions about protecting your rights and the child’s well-being.

Grandparents discusses on the joys and challenges grandparents face, hear from other grandparents and learn about some of the resources and supports available. Child care available as needed.

The Kinship Navigation Program links grandparents, foster and/or adoptive parents, relative caregivers, as well as fictive kin, both inside and outside of the formal child welfare system, to the services and supports specific to their family’s needs. Kinship Navigators provide emotional support, education, and guidance to relative caregivers, and offer information, referral, and follow-up services to promote independence and enhance the well-being of the families they serve.

Class and discussion to assist grandparents raising their grandchildren.