Service Name: KINSHIP SUPPORT SERVICES - RICHMOND - YOUTH SERVICES BUREAU (ADOPTION AND FOSTER/KINSHIP CARE SUPPORT GROUPS)

Organization Name: WEST CONTRA COSTA YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU

• Description: Mutual support groups whose members are individuals who have adopted a child or are considering or in the process of adoption, birth parents who relinquished a child for adoption, people who were, themselves adopted, foster care providers, children in foster care, kinship caregivers (paternal or maternal grandparents, aunts, uncles and other family members, members of a child's tribe or clan, godparents, stepparents, neighbors, friends of the family or other adults who can serve as "family"), children cared for by relatives under a formal or informal kinship care arrangement and/or adults who, as children, were raised in foster or kinship care. Groups may also be structured for adoptees, siblings and/or birth parents who have been reunited; older kinship caregivers who have taken on an unexpected parenting role later in life; and people who have other kinship issues, e.g., grandparents and other relatives who have been denied access to a grandchild or other youngster due to a death or divorce in the child's family. Meeting formats may include in-person, telephone or Internet options.
• Website: http://www.wccysb.org/
• Phone(s):
• Hours: 2nd & 4th Mon, 9:30am - 11:30am
• Eligibility: Relative providing full-time care for a child, family may be voluntary caregiver or connected with Child Protective Services
• Requirements: None
• Areas Served:
  • Contra Costa United States
• Categories:
  • Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
• Contacts:
  • Glenda Roberts, Case Manager, groberts@wccysb.org