Grandparents And Parents (G.A.P.) Mat-Su ...because Family Matters, and there are a lot of us. Volunteers of America (Grandfamlies link) reports there are 5500 grandparents caring for 8500 grandchildren in Alaska. A group of tired grandparents and parents began asking some serious questions. 1) What is wrong, that so many grandparents are raising the grandkids? 2) Is there a reason why parents are not as engaged as they should be? 3) What can we do to support each other in our community? 4) ...so what's your OCS experience been like? A common link between us is that there is, or has been, Office of Children's Services (CPS) activity in our friends and famlies lives, at some level, at some time. Without too much effort, we have stumbled upon what is commonly known as 'the OCS experience' and can no longer deny so many identical reports from so many unrelated sources. Now, latest conversations include questions like: 1) Can OCS (CPS) do that...? 2) How and where can we get help? 3) Are we seeing this correctly? 4) ...and again, what's your 'OCS experience' been like? The name "Grandparents And Parents" is intended to be duplicatable. We are in Wasilla, so we used 'Mat-Su' to identify our group. If you are in another area of Alaska, and want to become involved with G.A.P., simply put the name of your area behind the same title. (i.e. Nome, FBX, Talkeetna, etc.). For the time being, there is some information on Anchorage, craigslist, community, local news. Put OCS in the search box in the local news section, and two posts should come up titled: OCS behaving badly #1 & #2, (#3 is pending at this time).

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