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June 2010 Newsletter
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Free Caregiver training courses July - September
Dates and areas
Your Voices:
The Humour, sadness and inspirational.
A Group of Grandparents discuss trauma.
Read what those who have been raised by their grandparents have to say.
Information on the Official Information Act.
Men's Sheds, what are they all about?
Some guidelines for raising your grandchildren
Read more in the newsletter for this month.
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Meet Kirstin, our youngest Board member.
Kirstin Morris has 17 years of experience in working with children in a variety of different settings including respite care, foster care, full time daycare, kindergarten, family daycare, in home care etc. Kirstin has raised her son with the help of loving grandparents and realizes the importance of whanau. Kirstin is currently formalizing her experience by completely a degree in teaching.

Meet Board member Debbie Gillies
Debbie and her husband were left to raise our grandson ten years ago. Some time later Debbie spied an article in the local paper about another family who was raising their grandchildren. And they had thought they were the only grandparents in Auckland raising their grandchild! They couldn't wait to go to the meeting which was organised after the huge response to the article.
That was the beginning of Grandparents Raising Grandchildren, and in Debbie's words, "I am proud to say I am a Trustee to such a worthy organisation".
