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Family stress and risk in grandparent-headed households

by Marie LaHaye, M.S. candidate and graduate research assistant, Project HOME, Family & Developmental Studies Program, Colorado State University

Imagine you have just retired from teaching and are looking forward to retirement and pursuing your own interests. Then, one afternoon, you receive a call from social services that your daughter has been arrested, so her two children are being placed in your care. What will you do?

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Fall 2011 NCFR Report Magazine

Family Focus on Intergenerational Relationships

In this issue of NCFR Report, your colleagues examine the many facets of intergenerational relationships—the joys and the ambivalence.

from 2011 NCFR Annual Conference

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1:15 pm - 2:45 pm | Salon 3

Older Families and Health

Concurrent Sessions 6

Facilitator: Catherine Coccia

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92-year-old graduates from Carolina

In this inspiring video, 92 year old Roscoe Dillard Griffin graduates from UNC-Chapel Hill in the Class of 2009. He left college in 1938 but then returned 70 years later. He was introduced to the commencement crowd and got a standing ovation. It's never too late to go back to school!

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Grandparent Resource Sites

The Grandparent Resource Site Grant provides a holistic system of services to grandparents, grandchildren and professionals with the goal of enhancing the abilities of kinship care families to foster school readiness in young children. The goal of this initiative is to enhance and advance the cognitive, social, emotional and physical development of preschool-aged children by supporting and educating grandparents, grandchildren and professionals

from 2010 NCFR Annual Conference

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12:15 pm - 1:45 pm | Grand Ballroom Foyer

Poster Session 7

Adoption, Communication for Incarcerated Parents, Family Therapist Issues, Foster Care, Grandparenthood, Intergenerational Issues, Pornography in Committed Relationships, Racial/Ethnic Adolescent Issues, Religion and Families, Spirituality and Families