Scout Hanky

Posted on Thursday, August 31st, 2006 at 9:46 pm

Scout Hanky
Share experience setting up a cooperative for single parent respite care?

If you know anyone who has travelled the road already, setting up a cooperative/network to provide respite for single parents, please let me know. I don’t want to waste any time w/ mistakes that have been made by others before us.

We’d like to address the need in our neighborhood to form a
volunteer network/cooperative to provide respite for single parents. Maybe we could work in cooperation with the interfaith hospitality network?

It’s not as easy as it used to be to provide care for children and
other vulnerable people. We have to cover our behinds with
background checks and always having at least 2 people, never one adult alone with a vulnerable person and never teaming up pairs where there would be any suspicion of “hanky-panky”.

There is a perception that people who volunteer to work with vulnerable people must be motivated by predetory tendencies. Suspicion has hit people who vulunteer to lead scouts and those who work with youth in church.

Hey tkeldm,

A great big thank you for doing this. What a heart you must have, not to mention your courage. Your questions would likely be well received by the pastor of our singles and leader of single parent ministriy at our church. It is a very large church in northern California with a thriving singles ministry as well as single parent ministry called “SPA” or “Single Parent Adventures”

Anna Stowe – SPA Ministry Leader

http://www.baysidesingles.net/processpage.php?page=Single_Parents

Michael Baggett – Singles Pastor

http://www.baysidesingles.net/processpage.php?page=Values

http://www.baysidesingles.net/processpage.php?page=Contacts

I hope you will bless and be blessed.
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