Foster Grandparent Program
When you share your love, time and experience, you have the power to help a child who needs you. If you are 55 and want to share your experience and compassion, you have what it takes to be a Foster Grandparent.
Full of Possibilities
As a Foster Grandparent, you are a role model, a mentor and a friend. You may:
- Help children learn to read
- Provide one-on-one tutoring
- Guide children at a critical time in their lives
Put simply, you give the kind of comfort and love that sets a child on the path toward a successful future.
Foster Grandparents serve up to 40 hours per week at schools, non-profit child care centers, and Head Start centers. Some volunteers may qualify to earn a tax-free, hourly stipend. You will receive pre-service orientation, training from the organization where you serve, and supplemental accident and liability insurance while on duty.
FGP Glacial Lakes Region includes the following counties: Beadle, Brookings, Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel, Hamlin, Grant, Jerauld, Kingsbury, Lake, Miner, Moody, Roberts, and Sanborn.
FGP North Central Region includes the following counties: Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Dewey, Edmunds, Faulk, Hand, Hyde, Lyman, Marshall, McPherson, Potter, Spink, Sully, Walworth, and Ziebach.
FGP Southern Region includes the following counties: Aurora, Bon Homme, Brule, Charles Mix, Clay, Davison, Douglas, Hanson, Hutchinson, Lincoln, McCook, Minnehaha, Turner, Union, and Yankton.
Contacts
Kathy Perry
Glacial Lakes Region FGP Program Director
420 Fourth Street N.E., Suite 138
Watertown, SD 57201
Phone: (605) 753-6808
Fax: (888) 831-0314
E-mail: k.perry@voa-dakotas.org
Cindy Beard
North Central Region RSVP/FGP Program Director
112 N. Main St., Suite 2
Aberdeen, SD 57401
Phone: (605) 262-0708
Toll-free: (888) 761-7244
Fax: (605) 262-1008
E-mail: c.beard@voa-dakotas.org