Advocacy Training Workshop for Relative Guardians

Kalamazoo, Mich.- An Advocacy Training Workshop for relative guardians of children will be held on Monday, January 29, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. at Senior Services Coover Center, 918 Jasper Street in Kalamazoo. Registration is free if you’re raising a relative child; not raising a relative child there is a $10.00 nonrefundable charge. Call 269-383-8861 to register. Lunch included.

The training will focus on tools for advocating passage of a relative guardianship bill for kinship families. Participants will be given hands on information on ways to approach your legislator in a constructive, knowledgeable manner, how to write effective letters and e-mails, useful ways to communicate verbally with your government representative, understanding the complicated legislative process and the importance of this legislation to you and the relative child you are raising.

This legislation would provide financial assistance to relative caregivers who have guardianship of the children in their care. The workshop will stress the importance to relative caregivers of getting actively involved with their legislators and the passage of this critical legislation.

The workshop is sponsored by Michigan State University Extension Second Time Around, Strong Families/Safe Children, AARP, Michigan’s Children, and the MSU Kinship Care Resource Center. Michigan Office of Services to the Aging (OSA) will be hosting the lunch.

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MSU Extension is an Affirmative-Action Equal-Opportunity Institution. Michigan State University Extension programs and materials are open to all without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, disability, political beliefs, sexual orientation, marital status, or family status.

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