These organizations include an educational or advocacy focus on grandparents raising grandchildren. Each maintains a website that likely includes fact sheets and information for professionals and grandparents and related links.

Title:  American Association of Retired Persons Grandparent Information Center on Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
Content: AARP established the Grandparent Information Center (GIC) in 1993 to help grandparents cope with their parenting role. GIC provides information about services and programs that can help improve the lives of grandparent households. The GIC also offers assistance and publications in Spanish. Includes bibliographies and research on grandparenting issues.
Address: www.aarp.org/getans/consumer/grandparents.html

Title: Brookdale Center on Aging, Hunter College, CUNY
Content: The division of Intergenerational Programs at the Brookdale Center is responsible for developing, administering, evaluating, and publishing pilot projects that link young and old New Yorkers for their mutual benefit.
Address: http://www.brookdalefoundation.org/

Title: The Brookdale Foundation Group, New York
Content:  The Foundation funds programs such as the Relatives as Parents Program (RAPP), initiated in 1996 to encourage and promote the creation or expansion of services for grandparents and other relatives who have taken on the responsibility of surrogate parenting.
Address: 950 Third Avenue, 19th Floor, New York, NY 10022; phone: 212-308-7355
Website: http://www.brookdalefoundation.org/

Title: Center for Intergenerational Learning at Temple University
Content:  Through the development of innovative cross-age programs, the provision of training and technical assistance, and the dissemination of materials, the Center serves as a national resource for intergenerational programming.
Address: www.temple.edu/departments/CIL/

Title:  Generations Together
Content: University of Pittsburgh’s University Center for Social and Urban Research Generations Together (GT) is a program of intergenerational studies program within UCSUR. It is dedicated to the development of programs that bring the young and the elderly together to share experiences that promote mutual growth and foster understanding between the generations.
Address: www.pitt.edu/~ucsur/gt97.html

Title: Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Partnership of Wisconsin
Content:  Steering committee members, task force members, sponsors, web links, upcoming events and programs, Wisconsin support groups, fact sheets, and resources.
Address:  http://www.uwex.edu/ces/flp/grgp

Title:  Foundation for Grandparenting
Content: Includes information on grandparents’ rights, intergenerational programs and grandparents raising grandchildren
Address: www.grandparenting.org

Organizations – Federal Government

Title: Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
Author: US Department of Health and Human Services, Administration on Aging
Content: Describes population and policy issues, then provides a list of several grandparent caregiving resources with links and a selected bibliography.
Address: http://aoa.dhhs.gov/facsheets/grandparents.html

Title: National Institute on Aging
Author: National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Content: The NIA is one of the National Institutes of Health, the principle biomedical research agency of the U.S. Government. The NIA promotes healthy aging by conducting and supporting biomedical, social, and behavioral research and public education. Related websites under construction (5/99)
Address: www.nih.gov/nia/

Title: Social Security for Parents
Author: U.S. Social Security Administration
Content: Describes the conditions under which grandchildren receive benefits. It also provides links to information about babies, how much work you need to get benefits, and benefits for disabled children among other topics.
Phone No: 1-800-772-1213
Address: http://www.ssa.gov/kids/parent5.htm