GRANDS Stepping Up

GRANDS Stepping Up is a non-profit corporation dedicated to assisting grandparents/kinship guardians who are raising their grandchildren, primarily due to many issues such as the opiate epidemic, incarceration, mental health issues, death or illness of the parents that cause the parents to have the inability to fitness in their traditional parental roles; to assist by the creation of many holistic programs (to include denis' pantry & free store, as the only program that will also be offered to all community residents) that will support the new grand- family financially, psychologically, legally and socially to support the success of the new family unit; to educate governing county agencies and entities , as well as primary care physicians, school districts, etc. regarding the complexity of the grand/kinship families' needs.