National Resources
This section features Caregiver Resources for relative caregivers, including Through the Eyes of a Child, focusing specifically on younger children; Teaching Resources for service providers and educators and National Web Sites of potential interest to relative caregivers.
Caregiver Resources
- Kinship Care Resource Kit
Answers kinship caregiver questions about childcare, early education programs, food and nutrition programs, health insurance, and children with disabilities. Single copies of each guide are free. Order from Children's Defense Fund, Child Welfare and Mental Health Division, 25 E Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001, phone: 800-233-1200 or on the web.
- Relatives Raising Children: A Guide to Finding Help and Hope by Marianne Takas
Based upon what long-term relative caregivers (and family services professionals who work with them) have learned about raising relative children. Designed to provide useful information, strategies, and ideas, and to help link you with others who can help. Author has worked on behalf of children as an attorney, a youth worker, a parent and a foster parent. A Brookdale Foundation Publication. 166 pages, Third Edition 2005, $6.00 per copy to cover shipping and production costs. Book order form at http://www.brookdalefoundation.org/BOOKORDERFORM.doc.
- Through the Eyes of a Child
Nine fact sheets, designed by UW-Extension to help relative caregivers learn more about what to expect and where to turn for support. Tailored specifically for grandparents raising young children (birth to age 8).
Teaching Resources
- Cooperative
Extension's Educational Responses to Relative Caregivers' Needs and Concerns:
Resource List - PDF file
A listing of statewide grandparents raising grandchildren networks, research projects, newsletters, educational programs, fact sheets, resource guides.
- Grandparents
Raising Grandchildren: Doubly Stressed, Triply Blessed
“Multimedia program exploring issues and concerns by families consisting of grandparents raising grandchildren.” Hard copy $30. Free PDF file available at Penn State College of Agricultural sciences, http://pubs.cas.psu.edu/FreePubs/pdfs/agrs84.pdf
- Grandparents
Raising Grandchildren Educational Program from AARP - PDF file
For use by grandparent support groups, by agencies training staff, and anyone interested in exploring concerns of grandparents caregivers.
- Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Legal and Policy Challenges - PDF file
A
video-based program designed for grandparents and kin who are raising children and the professionals and paraprofessionals who work with them, and interested community members. The program, developed by Purdue University Extension and University of Wisconsin Extension, consists of videotape and CD ROM, which contains background information for the facilitator plus detailed lesson plans and handouts. Item number CFS-725 sells for $35, including shipping and handling charges. Indiana residents add $2.10 in sales tax. Ordering form at: http://www.ces.purdue.edu/cfs/programs/grandparents/resources/grandparents-form.pdf
- Second
Time Around-Grandparents Raising Grandchildren, A Curriculum Guide for Group
Leaders
Department of Family
and Consumer Sciences, College of Education, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo,
MI 49008, (269) 387-3704
- The
Ties That Bind: Kinship Care and Parental Substance Abuse, Training for Kinship
Caregivers
Children of
Alcoholics Foundation, 164 W. 74th Street, New York, NY 10023, (646) 505-2060
National Websites
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