Innovative Solutions for Disadvantage and Disability

Family support services - project grandd (grandparents raising and nurturing dependents with disabilities) provides comprehensive supportive services to kinship families headed by non-biological parents that include children with disabilities. The purpose of the program is to ensure that children remain in stable homes where they can be successful and are not relinquished to foster care. Services include case management (assessments, service coordiation, information and referral and advocacy); support groups for adults, teens and chiloren; parenting classes, educational programs; in-home tutoring; material and emergency assistance with food, clothing and other needs; annual family outing; respite care; guardianship legal assistance; and monthly newsletters and bi-weekly resource emails. In 2022-2023, 409 adults and children received services through project grandd.