1) From Sharon Francis at Channel Islands Social Services in Ventura County, CA. CISS provides free in-home respite to Foster and Kinship families. See their website
at: https://islandsocialservices.org/
2) From Miriam Rose at the Benjamin Rose Institute on
Aging:
Fairhill Partners, 12200 Fairhill Road, Cleveland, OH 44120
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Fairhill Partners is a one-stop campus offering
a comprehensive and coordinated approach to service, education, Kinship Care
(see below for more information), research and advocacy in the fields of
geriatrics and gerontology. Because it
is a one-stop campus, programs and services are on the same campus, including the following respite and caregiver support activities.
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Kinship Care: With support from Western Reserve
Area Agency on Aging, private foundations, local corporations, individual
donations, and lots of volunteer assistance (including some volunteering by the
grandparents themselves!), Fairhill hosts monthly Respite Saturdays, weekly
support groups, a weekly drop education program known as “Meet the Professionals,” an annual holiday party with gifts for
children and kinship caregivers, and an onsite summer camp tailored to the
needs of kinship kids and their caregivers. For more information about
Fairhill’s Kinship Caregiver Programs, please call or e-mail Carla Lanier, MSW,
Coordinator of Caregiver Programs at 216-421-1350 or
CLanier@fairhillpartners.org