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Family Caregivers Unite!

Family Caregivers Unite!

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May 4th 2010: Grandparents and Kinship Family Caregiving

Betty Cornelius and Sherry Johnson are kinship caregivers. Kinship caregivers are often grandparents, but they may be aunts, uncles, cousins, or others who are caring for children or youths in need of care or protection. Kinship caregiving is the full-time nurturing and protection of a child who is the caregiver’s kin but not a son or daughter. Betty and Sherry share with us their stories as grandparents as kinship caregivers. They talk about support groups they founded or have experience with. They identify the children’s health conditions that so often create the call for kinship caregiving.

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Betty Cornelius

Betty Cornelius is President and Founder of Cangrands National Kinship Support, a Canadian non-profit organization for kinship support.
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Sherry Johnson

Sherry Johnson has adopted three granddaughters who have been with her for ten years. They came into her care through the courts in the State of Hawaii which removed them from their parents and placed them in foster care.
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