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Phone Numbers
2-1-1 throughout Texas  Provides information and access to health and human  services
                                          information for all ages and situations

2-1-1                                 May refer you or you may ask for the number of the local Aging &
                                          Disability Resource Center (ADRC)

1-800-252-9240              Find the local Texas Area Agency on Aging

1-800-622-2520              Legal Hotline for Texans
                                           Provides free legal info to persons over 60 years of age

1-512-477-6000              Texas Kincare Taskforce
                                           Help to locate information on services you are seeking

Tips and Articles
Tips for Success: Building Support Groups for Custodial Grandparents

Grandparents as Parents - collection of articles
Fact Sheets
Texas Fact Sheet - AARP Foundation

Grandparents as Caregivers - Generations United
Downloadable Manuals and E-Books

 
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Facilitator's Guidebook - Penn State

Kinship Manual - Texas Department of Family and Protective Services

Texas Kincare Primer - Texas Legal Services Center and DADS  (en Español)

Texas Kincare Primer (updated 06-24-10)

GrandCare Toolkit - AARP Foundation Grandparent Program

Grandparents Raising Grandchildren, Texas Health & Human Services Division


A Support Group and Training Manual for Kinship Caregivers and Grandparents Raising Grandchildren


Links
 
 
 
 
Help for Grandparents Raising Grandchildren from AARP
http://www.aarp.org/families/grandparents/raising_grandchild/

Texas Kincare Primer
http://www.relativesraisingchildren.net/downloads/2010TexasKincarePrimer0624.pdf

Texas Kincare Primer (en Español)
http://www.relativesraisingchildren.net/downloads/TexasKincarePrimer.pdf

Generations United
http://ipath.gu.org/progr5161177.asp

Extension Services
http://www.extension.org/main/search?cx=002594610894210374936%3Ahggphannnzi&cof=FORID%3A11&q=grandparents+raising+grandchildren#963
 
Area Agency on Aging of Dallas County
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Recommended Reading

 
Grandparenting with Love and Logic - by Jim Fay and Fost W. Cline, M.D.

Raising our Children's Children - by Deborah Doucette-Dudman


Relatives Raising Children - edited by Josephy Crumbley and Robert L. Little


Grandparents as Parents - by Sylvie de Toledo and Deborah Edler Brown