Grandparents and Grandchildren TogetherMajor Program

496

Total Hours

Contributed.

1626

Contacts

with Local Stakeholders.

16

Hours

of Multistate Efforts.

45

Total Number

of Volunteers Engaged.

Program Indicators

Number of individuals (grandparent or relative) reporting improved personal knowledge (such as enhanced knowledge of the various roles and levels of responsibility that grandparents and relatives play within their families; knowledge of a child’s developmental levels and developmentally appropriate playthings or activities)

1102

Number of individuals (grandparent or relative) reporting improved personal skills (such as effective strategies for raising a grandchild or a relative) 

358

Number of individuals (grandparents or relatives raising a child) who sought support from local community organizations and/or its individual members

502

Number of individuals who extended any type of support to another grandparent or relative raising a child

284

Number of individuals who accessed community resources to find assistance when needed

409

Stories Behind the Numbers

  • Relatives Raising Children Support

    The Kenton County the Cooperative Extension Service Relatives Raising Relatives support group continues to serve families faced with raising children who have been placed in their care due to circumst... Read More

  • GrandLove

    In 2016, the Gallatin County Family Resource center conducted a survey to teachers and found 27% of Gallatin children are being raised by someone other than their parents. Some feel the number has in... Read More

  • Relatives and Grandparents raising other’s children!

    Relatives and Grandparents raising others children!The Rowan County Extension Agent for Family and Consumer Sciences collaborated with the Rowan County Public School Family Resource Coordinators, Stat... Read More

  • Caring for Kinship Caregivers

    Over the past year the number of Kentucky children living in households headed by grandparents and/or relatives has increased to 97,000, according to the AARP Foundation. Of those combined numbers, mo... Read More

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