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Essential Grandparent
Many helpful resources for grandparents, including books about grandparenting, are available at a discount on this website.
Contact information:
www.essentialgrandparent.com
Foster Grandparent Program, The
The Foster Grandparent Program offers seniors age 60 and older opportunities to serve as mentors, tutors, and caregivers for children and youth with exceptional needs, offering emotional support to victims of abuse and neglect, tutoring in reading, mentoring troubled teenagers and young mothers, and caring for premature infants and children. Foster Grandparents thrive on direct contact with children, believing that they can make a difference in the lives of children. Foster Grandparents volunteer in schools, Head Starts and other nonprofit human service centers. A Foster Grandparent serves an average of 20 hours per week and receives a small tax-free stipend for the service provided. (The stipend does not affect any of the benefits they may be receiving) They also receive a meal on the days they volunteer and travel allowance. There are income eligibility guidelines. There are 24,000 Foster Grandparents nationwide with over 600 serving in Minnesota.
Contact information:
www.mnseniorcorps.org/prog_fg.htm
Grandkids and Me Programs
Grandkids and Me offers three seasonal camps to choose from, winter, spring and fall. Some camp activities include craft making, canoeing, hiking, dog sledding, ice fishing, snowshoeing, music, and dancing. The camps are designed to work around busy schedules and don't interfere with school time. Grandparent Camps provide an opportunity for grandparents to get together with their grandchildren over a weekend.
Contact information:
www.grandkidsandme.com/
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Legal and Policy Challenges
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Legal and Policy Challenges is a three session video based program consisting of a videotape and CD-Rom which contains background information for the facilitator, detailed plans for the educational sessions, handouts, and additional materials. The program is designed for presentation to grandparents who are raising grandchildren, relatives who are raising kin, the professionals and paraprofessionals who work with them, and other interested community members. this program has been adapted from the videoconference, Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Legal and Policy Issues, produced by University of Wisconsin-Extension and Purdue Extension.
Contact information:
www.ces.purdue.edu/CFS/programs/grandparents/index.htm
Minnesota Kinship Caregivers Association
Minnesota Kinship Caregivers Association (MKCA), a not-for-profit organization, advocates for, supports, and provides information and resources to people raising their grandchildren or children of other kin and friends. The offer information on support groups and legal issues facing grandparents.
Contact information:
www.mkca.org/index.html
Ultimate Grandparent
This is a unique resource to help grandparents keep in touch with distant grandchildren. This site displays letters, cards and envelopes illustrated with wildlife scenery, animals and inventions designed by a grandfather who wrote the world's largest known collection of illustrated letters to his grandchildren who had moved to the other side of the world.
Contact information:
www.ultimategrandparent.com
Volunteer Impact Scale
The Foster Grandparent Program has prepared a "Volunteer Impact Scale" to help determine if a volunteer's experience is meeting his/her expectations. (PDF format)
Contact information:
www.nationalserviceresources.org/epicenter/practices/index.php?ep_action=view&ep_id=588
