Author: Diana Doggett
Major Program: Grandparents and Grandchildren Together
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, more than 35,000 children have no parent present in the home where they live. The underlying cause for this includes drug use by parents, imprisonment, illness or death of the parent. To address this issue, the Central Kentucky Grandparent Raising Relatives Coalition comprised of Fay
Author: Peggy Jones
Relatives and Grandparents raising other’s children!The Rowan County Extension Agent for Family and Consumer Sciences collaborated with the Rowan County Public School Family Resource Coordinators, State and local police, Pathways and Legal Aid to offer a two-day workshop to educate and support relatives raising children, mostly grandparents raising grandchildren. According to Kinship Families Coalition of Kentucky, 6% of children throughout the Commonwealth are in the care of grandparents
Author: Sherri Broderick
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 increased since that survey. GrandLove support group was formed. The GrandLove mission is to identify families who are raising children other than their own and offer support by providing resources developed through partnerships with concerned community members. The group was formed
Author: Joan Bowling
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 circumstances preventing the parents from caring for them. The support group has been the only one of its kind within the county that is not affiliated with a religious organization or specific social group. The monthly meeting serves as a place for caregivers to network with others in similar s
