“Positive Solutions for Challenging Behaviors: Birth to Five” is the topic of two meetings of the Kinship Caregivers Support Group during April.
Sue Young, a Family Outreach Specialist with the Anne Arundel County Public Schools Infants and Toddlers Program, will speak at the meetings. The programs are free and open to the public.
The group is for those who are providing Kinship Care, which is the full-time care, nurturing and protection of children by relatives or other adults who have a family relationship to the child. The phenomenon is growing in this U.S. About one in ten children lives with his/her grandparents.
The Support Group will meet from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 12 in the craft room at the Pascal Senior Activity Center at 125 Dorsey Road in Glen Burnie. It will also meet from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Thursday, April 14 at the Annapolis Library training room at 1410 West St. in Annapolis.
The Anne Arundel County Department of Social Services created a Kinship Navigator program to help family members on a short-term basis to obtain information and a resource manual. The program is a joint effort of the DSS, the Department of Aging and Disabilities, the Department of Recreation and Parks, and the Board of Education. The Navigator guides participants to resources available to them.
For information or to request services, call Chere Torsiello, Kinship Navigator, at 410-897-3933 or e-mail ctorsiel@dhr.state.md.us. TTY users can call via Maryland Relay at 7-1-1.
