Table 3.

Most frequent resources suggested by grandparent caregivers during interviews

•Early initiation of counselling services for grandchildren.	“Start, start the counseling as soon as the grandparents get them, as soon as they get them…I had to figure out where to get the help and then I had to do all the phone calling and it’s just, and then it took them almost two years before they got help for the kids and they still didn’t get them the proper help that they need.”
•Support groups for grandparent caregivers.	“I don’t even know if this is in existence, but if there are support groups… of grandparents in the same position. It’s a way of validating some of what you’re feeling. Just hearing it from people who are going through the same thing.”
•Additional financial supports and childcare subsidies.	“…My husband because he worked physical labor all of his life he didn’t have a pension…When we first got grandson that was, that was a really hard time for all of us but, you know, we did, we made it. We worked it out and we got through it.”
•Mentor programs for grandchildren to facilitate participation in activities and respite care.	“…As a grandparent it would be absolutely wonderful to have somebody younger who can do things with him”
•Parenting courses targeted at grandparent caregivers.	“Definitely parenting courses because sometimes I get frustrated and if I don’t know what to do with him.”
•Community programming to highlight available resources.	“It would be nice for them [DCS] to do some kind of session for a grandparent to let them know what resources there are and where they are because I didn’t know nothing. I’ve basically learned about them through my doctor’s office.”