Kincare provides support for grandparents
or relatives raising grandchildren

CHALLENGES faced by kinship caregivers

1. Legal - Grandparents may need legally recognized status as primary caregiver for school enrollment and/or medical consent.
2. Financial -
   1. Kincare Grandparents often have trouble with day-to-day living expense.
   2. Many don’t know how to access benefits.
   3. Middle income grandparents slip through the cracks
3. Health/medical
   1. Many kincare children do not have health insurance
4. Childcare
   1. Difficult to find affordable child care.
   2. Often not available unless the caregivers have legal custody or guardianship.
5. Education
   1. Need some kind of legal status to enroll the child in school.
   2. Schools need to have an understanding of the unique situations of these children.
6. Emotional/psychological
   Most of these children are traumatized and angry. Many have some type of disability Both sides (Kincare Grandparents and the children) experience Grief, loss and anger.
7. Housing
   Grandparents may live in housing that doesn’t allow children or is inadequate due to size.

Kincare Grandparents are not nosy, interfering Grandparents. We are the Grandparents who have had to step into the role of parent for a variety of reasons. It usually occurs suddenly without advance warning. Most of us would love a typical Grandparent/grandchild relationship. We love our adult children. We may not like their actions but we love them and when a situation such as Kincare Grandparent occurs in a family it is similar to death. You find yourself grieving for the adult child you lost. Oftentimes you must go against this child in a courtroom. You do it all to protect the innocent children.

Remember, if you have your Grandchildren and they are safe,
you have already become a success story.