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most amazing thing,” said Karla Fales, president and CEO of REAL Services, “but also a large responsibility. You get the opportunity to pour into them in meaningful ways, build relationships that are like nothing else in their lives and draw energy and enthusiasm that contributes to your health and ability to remain active. It’s my very favorite thing in the whole world.” Fales has three grandsons who live
in Michigan. For many grandparents, however, that responsibility also falls on raising their grandchildren or contributing to their care on a regular basis. An estimated more than 2 million children in the United States are being raised solely by their grandparents or other relatives. This is called kinship care. “The Department of Child Services places a child entering foster care
with a family member, or someone with a family-like relationship to the child, whenever possible to lessen the trauma of removal,” explained Noelle Russell, director of communications for Indiana Department of Child Services. Kinship care is not exclusive to state intervention. Many times it is voluntary, the result of an agreement among family members. Possible reasons can Continued on page 2
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