Foster Grandparents

From its inception in 1965, the Foster Grandparent Program has provided a chance for old and young alike to answer each other’s needs.

As school based mentors, friends and role models, Foster Grandparents work one-on-one with children or in small groups in classroom settings assisting with academics, social skills or other special needs. They display an abundance of personal warmth, emotional maturity and social responsiveness. Foster Grandparents help children learn to succeed and be happy. They enhance a child’s life.

Foster Grandparents work twenty to thirty-five hours a week in day care centers, preschools, Head Start Programs and public or private schools. They also help young people living in exceptional care facilities with developmental needs. Participants receive a tax-free stipend of approximately $225 to about $375 monthly.

In 2003, Foster Grandparents devoted over 78,000 hours to the program in Bureau, Carroll, LaSalle, Lee, Marshall, Ogle, Putnam, Stark and Whiteside Counties.

Currently, eighty-eight Foster Grandparents are placed at sites in Amboy, Dixon, Earlville, Grand Detour, Henry, LaSalle, Mendota, Princeton, Rock Falls, Spring Valley, Sterling, Streator and Sublette.

There continues to be a need for more volunteers in all areas.

 

Requirements

To be a Foster Grandparent:

· Must be 60 years of age or older

· In reasonably good health

· Meet Federal Income guidelines

 

Benefits

· Tax Free Stipend

· Transportation Provided

· Meal Provision

· Free Physical Examination

· Paid Holidays/Vacation Days/Sick Days

· Training

· Inservice

 

Sites (Schools, Preschools, Day Cares, Head Start)

· Amboy Central Grade School, Amboy

· ARK Day Care, Dixon

· Bright Beginnings Day Care, Dixon

· Caring Hands, LaSalle/Peru

· Christ Lutheran School, Sterling

· CGH Helping Hands Day Care, Sterling

· Dillon School, Rock Falls

· Dixon Head Start, Dixon

· Douglas School, Princeton

· Earlville Head Start, Earlville

· Ellice Dinges Center, Sublette

· Exceptional Care, Sterling

· Faith Christian School, Grand Detour

· Franklin School, Sterling

· Henry Senachwicne School, Henry

· Immanuel Lutheran Preschool, Earlville

· Jefferson School, Princeton

· Jefferson Elementary School, Sterling

· JFK Kennedy Grade School, Spring Valley

· LaSalle Catholic School, LaSalle

· LaSalle Head Start, LaSalle

· Lincoln School, Dixon

· Lincoln School, Princeton

· Lovett Child Care Development, Dixon

· Mendota Head Start, Mendota

· Merrill School, Rock Falls

· Open Sesame Day Care, Dixon

· Polo Head Start, Polo

· Riverdale School, Rock Falls

· Sterling/Rock Falls Head Start, Sterling

· St. Andrew Grade School, Rock Falls

· St. Anne’s School, Dixon

· St. Anthony’s School, Streator

· St. Mary’s School, Dixon

· Washington School Dixon

 

 

Sharon King, Program Director

Contact Us At:

Tri-County Opportunities Council

405 Emmons Avenue, P.O. Box 610

Rock Falls, IL 61071

815/625-7830

1-800-323-5434