CARE Delaware Grandparent/Older Relative Caregiver Programs

CARE Delaware provides various services and supports for grandparents and other older relatives raising children, including:

• Caregiver Resource Centers, located throughout Delaware, which provide helpful materials for caregivers, including grandparent and older relative caregivers.
• Respite Options for Relative Caregivers  to provide them with needed breaks from their caregiving responsibilities. These respite programs include:
  
  
  • Grand Time Off, a respite program that provides limited funding for childcare options; 
  • Camp Respite, a summer camp program that provides recreation for kids and gives a break to grandparents and other relative caregivers; and 
  • School Holiday Camp Respite, a camp program, like Camp Respite, offered at various local facilities during winter and spring breaks.
• The Delaware Kinship Navigator Program, which assists grandparents and relative caregivers locate services for themselves and the children that they are raising.

For more information about supports for grandparents and relative caregivers in Delaware, please visit the Intergenerational Programs page of this web site.