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 How It All Started
Grandparents Resource Center was founded in January, 1989 by Grandma Shirley, a grandmother of two, in Denver,
Colorado. GRC is a product of determination and hard work of on of the strongest grandmothers of America. This is what Grandma Shirley has to say:
 I was a Real Estate
broker for 5 years, after I left college. I later left Real Estate to work for U.S. West, Inc., where I worked for almost 15 years.
While at US West, I enrolled at Colorado Christian University.
My two grandson were placed in foster care Dependency and Neglect on the part of my daughter and her husband. I
sought the opportunity to visit with my grandsons in foster care, and I was told by a social worker that I had no rights to visit.
As a grandparent, I have had to battle with social services for 6 years, and successfully obtained custody of my
grandchildren who had been placed in, and moved from, one foster home to another. From this experience, I founded the Grandparents
Resource Center (GRC) to help other grandparents in similar situations. I researched on "today's grandparenting" and
"grandparents' rights" for my Senior thesis. My research became the foundation on which the Colorado State Legislature passed
the House Bill, H. B. 91-1255, in 1991 for Grandparents' Rights. In that same year, I graduated from CCU with a Bachelor
of Science degree in Human Resource Management. next page
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