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Gateway Grandparents/Kinship Network: East Central Missouri        

Welcome to the    
Gateway Grandparents/Kinship Network
in East Central Missouri

Information and resources for grandparents
and relative caregivers in a parenting role in the
St. Louis Metropolitan Area

About Us | Events | Grandparenting Statistics | History
Information & Referral Warm-Line | Newsletter
Support Groups | St. Louis Area Resource Guide | Parenting Resources

About us

Gateway Grandparents/Kinship Network is a collaboration of organizations and agencies working in the St. Louis Metropolitan
Area to enhance the lives of grandparents and relative caregivers
in a parenting role. The Gateway Grandparents/Kinship Network:

  • provides education on issues related to grandparents and relative caregivers in a parenting role.
     

  • helps connect  grandparents and relative caregivers in a parenting role to community resources.
     

  • facilitates networking among service providers to improve their ability to help grandparents and relative caregivers in a parenting role with the challenges of raising children.


Member agencies

  • Cardinal Ritter Senior Services

  • Children's Home Society of Missouri

  • Foster & Adoptive Care Coalition

  • Legal Services of Eastern Missouri

  • Let's Start Caregivers Group, St. Vincent de Paul Church

  • Mid-East Area Agency on Aging (MEAAA)

  • Missouri Department of Social Services, Children's Division

  • St. Louis Area Agency on Aging (SLAAA), Department of Human Services

  • University of Missouri Extension


For more information

Karen Nolte, Executive Director, Children's Home Society of Missouri, email: karenn@chsmo.org   phone: 314-968-2350.


About Us | Events | Grandparenting Statistics | History
Information & Referral Warm-Line | Newsletter
Support Groups | St. Louis Area Resource Guide | Parenting Resources

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N
ewsletter
Kincare Connections


Video (2:00) Featuring a grandfamily from Eastern Missouri


Resource Guide:
Getting Started

with interactive
Web links


Other Resources
Play More, Watch Less TV (PDF)

Home to Home (PDF)

Sharing Information about Your Child (PDF)

Email to help Separated Parents Communicate (PDF)

More Books about Family Changes (PDF)


 

 


University of Missouri Extension East Central Regional Director's Office
Bud Reber, Regional Director
Page Maintained By: Mary Lou Krekeler, krekelerml@missouri.edu
Last revised: 05/19/11
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