Updated

October 28, 2025

The Foster Grandparents Program provides senior volunteers, ages 55 and older, an opportunity to support, encourage, mentor, and nurture children with special and exceptional needs from infancy through 21 years of age. The children served may be those who have experienced trauma through abuse and neglect, or those with physical, mental or social and emotional challenges. Foster Grandparent volunteers serve children in non-profit childcare centers, Head Start. public schools, after school programs, juvenile justice system and group homes.