Sending the love to our partner Kaiser Permanente Greater San Francisco Community Benefit, whose support of our “Better Health, Brighter Futures” project to help kinship families in San Mateo County reached 89 caregivers with basic needs, one-on-one counseling and support and health education workshops in 2021. As a result, every kinship child and youth in their care remained safely in a loving home and out of foster care. KP-GSF has partnered with Edgewood for 7 years with nearly $100,000 in urgently needed grant support!
Better Health, Brighter Futures — San Mateo Kinship Support Network is a specialized program developed by Edgewood Center for Children and Families to serve kinship families in San Mateo County. It provides direct community health nursing services and increases community collaboration using our resource and referral network built over 20 years in San Mateo County, with a focus on growing and systematizing access to community resources for vulnerable, low-income caregivers (predominantly of color); as the only kinship program in the county, we measurably increase clients’ knowledge, understanding, and utilization of resources/referrals to improve their physical and mental health and build capacity to effectively nurture and raise their kinship child, keeping them safely in the home of a loving relative and out of foster care.
