Who We Are
    Grandparents Resource Center™ (GRC), based in Denver, Colorado, is a 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt nonprofit charitable organization. It was founded in 1989 by Grandma Shirley to support grandparents and their families.

    GRC started as a local organization in Colorado, and has touched and served grandparents across America, and from 18 other countries, including, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Columbia, England, Ethiopia, Germany, India, Jordan, Korea, Mexico, Morocco, Peru, Poland, Russia, Thailand, Trinidad (West-Indies), and Vietnam.

    The GRC was once recognized as the nation's most formidable service organization for grandparents seeking, visitation, custody, or who already have custody of, and are raising, their grandchildren. Due to lack of financial support and, as a result of political attact on the organization, GRC has drastically shut down its large-scale operation. However, Grandma Shirley still provides consultation services, one family at a time, on visitation and custody issues, to grandparent families. GRC had been, and is still, one of the few solution-oriented organizations in America, with a concrete Mission


Achievements of GRC
The GRC has given a voice to grandparents in Colorado by being instrumental in writing and getting the bill H.B. 91-1255 passed for grandparents rights in the State of Colorado in 1991. The founder of the GRC, Shirley, worked and researched the possibility of such a bill. With mentorship of a "pioneer grandmother" in Colorado, Marty Smith, and the collaboration of interested personnel and a team of legislators, Shirley's research was promulgated into a bill, sponsored by state senators and passed.

    Based on the foundation laid by GRC, a Colorado State Representative, Rep. Frana Mace, a grandmother also raising her grandchildren, sponsored a Grandparents Adoption bill, authored by Pam Gordon, attorney-at-Law, who works with lots of our grandparents in Colorado. This bill allows grandparents, in the State of Colorado, to adopt their grandchildren after they've had physical custody of them for a year or more on the bases of abandonment. This will ease the struggles that grandparents go through today in either obtaining custody or adoption of their grandchildren.

    A third bill has now been passed in Colorado State Legislature for siblings to be placed together in a custodial placement or in adoption cases. Shirley Sogah, President of GRC, testified before the legislature, about the importance of placing siblings together. Too many a time siblings have been torn apart through the state foster placement system, and family ties are often broken therein. Hopefully, this bill will encourage familial placement of siblings together in Termination of Parental Rights or Dependency & Neglect cases.


    For the well being of our children at risk, we provide hope, empowerment, advocacy, and support services to grandparents raising grandchildren, and those seeking adotion, custody and visitation rights of their grandchildren at risk.

    Dedicated to serving grandparents and their families, GRC's primary goal is to assist grandparents and their families in providing the best family environment to grandchildren who stand at risk of proper care, or being torn apart from their biological families and displaced through the legal system. We also provide legal assistance, when necessary, to re-unify children with their biological families, and to secure the well being of our children and the health of the entire family. Thus, building and keeping American families strong, intact, and together.

    We help grandparents and family members to facilitate harmony, and foster intergenerational relationships, providing a broader security for the children in the family. We help families negotiate with the legal "system" to re-connect children placed in foster care with their biological families. It is our goal to help rescue children who are in the "limbo realm" of foster placements and in despair, and to have them placed in permanent, safe and loving homes with grandparents or other suitable family members.