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On this site you will find support groups, and links to topics pertaining to the challenges of raising relative children.  Click on Packie our interactive backpack for more information

Feel free to contact ParentLink directly with any specific questions. ParentLink has a free and confidential WarmLine staffed by Master's level Family Support Specialists.

1-800-552-8522 En Español: 1-888-460-0008

News and Updates!

• The next GrandFamily Support Group for Boone county families is Thursday, February 16, 2012 from 5:30-7pm at ParentLink (4800 Santana Circle, Columbia, MO 65203).  Join our GrandFamilies Facebook page for more information.
• Resource for Boone county: BCOTN (Boone County Offender Transition Network)'s mission is "to promote a healthier and safer community, by creating and maintaining an effective network of services that address the needs of offenders, their families and our community."  Are you a grandparent raising grandchildren due to parental incarceration?  Do you work with grandparents in this situation?  For more information about BCOTN, visit their website at http://bcotn.org.
• Growing Trend: Grandparents Raising Grandchildren (Local news story out of Jackson, MO): http://www.kfvs12.com/Global/story.asp?S=14000925
• Check out this listing of books to read with your grandchildren.
• A story about Grandparents Raising Grandchildren was featured on The Today Show.  The Today Show featured a segment on Saturday September 18^th on the economy and grandparents raising grandchildren. If you missed it, you can catch it at - http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/39245090#39245090
• Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Conference, Poplar Bluff, MO

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