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Celebrating Our 2025 Step Up Parents Scholarship Recipients

Kinship Care Stories, Press, ScholarshipDenyse RichterMay 15, 2025Kinship Care, Scholarship

Kinship Care Story: Deborah's Journey of Faith, Family, and Resilience

Kinship Care StoriesDenyse RichterMay 9, 2025Kinship Story, Kinship Care

"We are Step Up Parents": Supporters Share Their Kinship Care Story

"We are Step Up Parents": Supporters Share Their Kinship Care Story

Kinship Care StoriesDenyse RichterMay 9, 2025Kinship Story

Step Up Parents to Host First Annual Benefit Event to Support Kinship Families

Step Up Parents to Host First Annual Benefit Event to Support Kinship Families

In the News, PressDenyse RichterMay 7, 2025

100 Women Who Care Seacoast Donates $10,000 to Step Up Parents, Enough to Help 20 Kinship Families

100 Women Who Care Seacoast Donates $10,000 to Step Up Parents, Enough to Help 20 Kinship Families

In the News, PressDenyse RichterApril 25, 2025

Supporters Continue to ‘Step Up’ for Kinship Caregivers

Supporters Continue to ‘Step Up’ for Kinship Caregivers

Press, In the NewsDenyse RichterApril 24, 2025Press

Nearly 17 Million Children in the U.S. Live with a Parent Who Has a Substance Use Disorder

Nearly 17 Million Children in the U.S. Live with a Parent Who Has a Substance Use Disorder

In the News, Substance Use DisorderDenyse RichterApril 18, 2025Opioid Crisis, Substance Use Disorder

Psychology Today Highlights the Hidden Epidemic of Grandparents Raising Grandchildren

Psychology Today Highlights the Hidden Epidemic of Grandparents Raising Grandchildren

In the NewsDenyse RichterApril 18, 2025National News

Step Up Parents Receives $10,000 Grant

Step Up Parents Receives $10,000 Grant

Press, In the NewsDenyse RichterApril 17, 2025

Kinship Care Story: Fictive Caregiver Jaime Steps Up

Kinship Care Story: Fictive Caregiver Jaime Steps Up

Fictive Care, Kinship Care StoriesDenyse RichterApril 10, 2025Kinship Care, Kinship Story

Kinship Care Story: Fictive Caregivers Seek to Adopt 9-Year-Old Battling Brain Cancer

Kinship Care Story: Fictive Caregivers Seek to Adopt 9-Year-Old Battling Brain Cancer

Kinship Care Stories, Fictive CareDenyse RichterApril 6, 2025Kinship Story, Kinship Care, Fictive Care

Kinship Care Story: New Hampshire Grandparents Helped by Step Up Parents Share Their Struggle

Kinship Care Story: New Hampshire Grandparents Helped by Step Up Parents Share Their Struggle

Kinship Care StoriesDenyse RichterMarch 28, 2025Kinship Story, Kinship Care

Step Up Parents Receives Major Grant Award

Step Up Parents Receives Major Grant Award

Step Up Parents recently received a $5,000 grant from Greater Lakes Region Children’s Auction.

Press, In the NewsDenyse RichterMarch 25, 2025Grants

Kinship Care Story: Tumseen

Kinship Care Story: Tumseen

Kinship Care StoriesOlivia RichterMarch 17, 2025Kinship Story, Kinship Care

Kinship Care Story: Chad

Kinship Care Story: Chad

Kinship Care StoriesDenyse RichterMarch 12, 2025Kinship Story, Kinship Care

Kinship Care Story: France and Avah

Kinship Care Story: France and Avah

Kinship Care StoriesDenyse RichterFebruary 25, 2025Kinship Story, Kinship Care

Kinship Care Story: Joyce

Kinship Care Story: Joyce

Kinship Care StoriesDenyse RichterFebruary 17, 2025Kinship Care, Kinship Story

Step Up Parents Receives $55,000 Grant from The NH Charitable Foundation

Step Up Parents Receives $55,000 Grant from The NH Charitable Foundation

Press, In the NewsDenyse RichterFebruary 12, 2025Fundraising, Grants

Hear from the First Cumberland County, Maine Kinship Family Helped by Step Up Parents

Hear from the First Cumberland County, Maine Kinship Family Helped by Step Up Parents

Kinship Care StoriesDenyse RichterFebruary 4, 2025Kinship Care, Kinship Story

Meet Samuel Frazier, Step Up Parents' 2024 College Scholarship Recipient

Meet Samuel Frazier, Step Up Parents' 2024 College Scholarship Recipient

Kinship Care StoriesDenyse RichterJanuary 27, 2025Scholarship