Kincare Grandparents

1. Legal – Grandparents may need legally recognized status as primary caregiver for school enrollment and/or medical consent.2. Financial -

• Kincare Grandparents often have trouble with day-to-day living expense.
• Many don’t know how to access benefits.
• Middle income grandparents slip through the cracks

3. Health/medical

• Many kincare children do not have health insurance

4. Childcare

• Difficult to find affordable child care.
• Often not available unless the caregivers have legal custody or guardianship.

5. Education

• Need some kind of legal status to enroll the child in school.
• 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.

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