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The Gathering Spot is a great NEW way to meet other kinship caregivers from the comfort of your own home and has been redesigned to be a spot where you can come for as long as you have time to meet other kinship caregivers, make a friend or two and gain valuable information to help you in your kinship journey.

This is not a support group, this is a virtual meeting space designed to connect caregivers together and create a kinship community, so that you can learn about important resources or information essential in your kinship journey.

Meet Lory Scarberry, your Gathering Spot facilitator! She and her husband have been kinship caregivers for more than six years. They received custody of their granddaughter and a year later, their grandson. Caring for two children who are medically fragile brought about many unexpected challenges but mostly joy. After the death of the children’s mother, their daughter, in 2021, the placement became permanent. While this brought on another level of challenges, they have navigated each new day as a family through love. Lory is also KY-KINS Peer Support Specialist.

Lory believes her virtual kinship support community was an integral part of navigating her journey and shared that “The friendships I forged through my kinship community not only helped me in my time of need but some of them became lifelong friends that are still an active part of my life.”

 

This connection meeting will be offered every week on Tuesday beginning January 4.  Come and get connected!!