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What is the Kinship Support Services Program (KSSP)?
Because nearly 40% of foster care placements are relative care placements (where the grandmother or other relative is caring for a foster child rather than the child being put in traditional foster care), the San Mateo Kinship Support Services Program was created to help these relative caregiver families in San Mateo County build self-sufficiency. Our program offers peer mentoring, supportive services, parenting help, and youth services for grandparents and other elders raising their relatives' children as an alternative to foster care.
The program strives to:
Stabilize new or troubled placements of children in kinship care, reducing the likelihood of their being removed to traditional foster care.
Immerse relative caregivers in a supportive community of other caregivers.
Support the mental health, physical health, and overall well-being of relative caregivers.
Educate, empower, and energize relative caregivers for parenting.
Provide children in relative care with supportive mental health and educational enrichment services.
Direct relative caregivers to other helpful resources and services.
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What is the Kinship Support Services Program (KSSP)?