Support Groups

Promotes, supports, and assists grandparents and their families in maintaining or restablishing family ties and family stability, where the family has been disrupted for any reason. Focus is on the ties between grandparents and their grandchildren. Offers public awareness and education about family rights and responsibilities, and relationships between grandparents and grandchildren. Encourages participation in the legislative process of Canada and the Yukon Territory in order to codify grandparents" rights to access or custody of grandchildren, and to entitle grandparents to information from custodial parents concerning their grandchildren. Services include a self-help group for grandparents, and accompaniment of grandparents to meetings about legal or policy decisions. Nonprofit society.