RaisingGrandchildren

First Steps: Getting Started Raising Relatives' Children, a resource guide full of practical information and suggestions has been developed for grandparents and others raising relatives' children and children of friends.

First Steps is available in a downloadable PDF format

Also, a hard copy version of First Steps is available. To purchase a copy, please contact MKCA.

First Steps is supported, in whole or in part, through a grant from the Administration on Aging, the Minnesota Board on Aging, the state unit on aging for Minnesota, and the Minnesota Area Agencies on Aging.

Grantees undertaking projects under government sponsorship are encouraged to express freely their findings and conclusions. Points of view or opinions do not necessarily represent official Administration on Aging policy or the policy of other funders of this project.

Grants from the McKnight Foundation and Bush Foundation also support First Steps; and the Minnesota Department of Human Services provided its initial printing. Current printing courtesy of AARP Minnesota through generous funding from the AARP Foundation Grandparent Information Center and the New York Life Foundation.