One of the biggest and most challenging tasks facing families today involves grandparents parenting their grandchildren and sometimes their great-grandchildren.

Grands As Parents is a support/advocate group for these grandparents. These grandparents realize that they are raising teenagers that are at risk. The children face many issues within the turbulence of today's society, and they need the support of those who care.

Grands As Parents is here to support these teenagers and their grandparents by offering these teens at risk a program geared especially for these teens. These teenagers need a place where they feel that they have a voice.

One of our programs Very Important People (VIP) offer these teens individual counseling, group counseling, mentorship conflict resolution/anger management, life skills, and sexual and drug abuse prevention.

We also feel that cultural activities is a must through Art Sanctuary performances, we have a collaboration with Temple/Tyler University to the teens modern design and set design.

We sponsor a modem dance troupe, where the teens choreograph their own dance steps. They are allowed to express themselves through Hip Hop,
poetry, rap and drawing.

What Grands As Parents expect to accomplish is for our teenage to have a more structural edge with:

• Leadership skills
• Behavioral Improvement
• Readiness for employment
• Problem solving
• Health Awareness
• Self-esteem
• Anger management
• Entrepreneurship