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Grandparent Support Group
Celebrating Grandparents
Support Group Platica
AbuelosY
Nietos Juntos2007
OLLU /IWU 2009 Guest Support Group Facilitators
Edgewood ISD 2008 School-Based Abuelos
Pilot Project
San Antonio Food Bank 2008 Aid in Processing Assistance Applications
Family Service Assoc. 2010 Provision of Social Service & Info/Referral
AEC-MakingConnections 2007
funded Pilot Program
Citibank 2008 Financial Support
AACOG-AAAoA 2007 GRG Financial Support & Transportation to
Support Group
TDFPS 2008 Navigatingthe CPS System
Child Custody Solution 2010 Free Legal Consultation &
info/referral
Clarity Child Guidance Center 2009 Child
Mental Health Presentations
CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health System 2010
Free Health Screenings
Family Service Assoc.-Neighborhood Place 2007
Free Meeting Space
C3- Info/Referral & Education
re: Social Service Navigation for Kinship Caregivers
Grandparent Advocates
La Fe Policy Research and Education Center 1313 Guadalupe Street, Suite 102 San Antonio, TX 78207
What Grandparents, Service Providers, and Data Taught Us
CONCERNS AND NEEDS
• Top Concerns – Financial – legal
• Additional – Childcare – Healthcare – Transportation – Housing
• Further complicating the challenges of GRGs – the “sandwich
generation” caring for grandchildren and own parents
– Immigration status • Race/ethnic GRG
differences – language, economic, and cultural
POLICY ISSUES
• Increase Kinship and Foster Care funding.
• Increased flexibility to utilize Title IIII Foster Care funds for kinship care.
• Simplification of Guardianship Process.
• Improve data collection methods to identify growing GRG.
• Improve service provider data collection on GRG, and develop more costs-effective service coordination approaches.
• Develop improved culturally and linguistically responsive services targeting Mexican Americans GRG.
• Develop GRG respite support services and facilities.