East Bay Foster Grandparent Program Needs Volunteers

The East Bay Foster Grandparent Program, a division of East Bay Community Action Program (EBCAP), is currently recruiting community members throughout Rhode Island’s East Bay region who are 55 years of age or older and income-eligible to serve as Foster Grandparent volunteers in local schools, Head Start sites, YMCAs, and libraries.

Foster Grandparents may help guide students to higher academic achievement, provide one-on-one tutoring, mentor youth and teenagers all while earning compensation for the time devoted to the program. Foster Grandparents earn a weekly tax-free stipend with paid holidays, and they are provided a mileage allowance. At some sites, meals are provided.

For more information or to apply to be a Foster Grandparent please call Diane Palmer, Foster Grandparent Program Coordinator, at (401) 712-2743 or email dpalmer@ebcap.org.

The Foster Grandparent Program connects people 55 years of age and older to serve as role models to young people. The Foster Grandparent Program is a mentorship program, not part of the Foster Care system.

East Bay Community Action Program is a private, non-profit 501 (c) (3) corporation that provides a wide array of health and human services to the residents of Rhode Island’s East Bay, including the municipalities of East Providence, Barrington, Warren, Bristol, Little Compton, Tiverton, Portsmouth, Middletown, Newport, and Jamestown. For more information regarding services and to learn how you too can support the CAP which supports the East Bay community, please visit ebcap.org.