{"id":516,"date":"2020-01-16T15:46:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T15:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthygrandfamilies.com\/?page_id=516"},"modified":"2026-05-04T14:27:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:27:51","slug":"mcdowell-county","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/healthygrandfamilies.com\/?page_id=516","title":{"rendered":"McDowell County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color\" style=\"color:#006839\">Contact Your Healthy Grandfamilies County Coalition Coordinator<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dr. Donald Reed<br><\/strong>McDowell County Commission on Aging<br><a href=\"mailto:donald@mcdowellcoa.org\">donald@mcdowellcoa.org<\/a><br>(304) 436-6588<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rebecca Brown<br><\/strong>Children&#8217;s Home Society<br><a href=\"mailto:rbrown@childhswv.org\">rbrown@childhswv.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color\" style=\"color:#006839\">McDowell County is a Qualified Family Engagement County<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The WVSU Healthy Grandfamilies Program provides support, training, and resources to grandparents raising grandchildren to help them make decisions regarding educational choices that impact student learning and achievement. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The following schools are identified as West Virginia Family Engagement Center sites:<\/h3>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><!--EndFragment-->Welch Elementary School<\/li>\n<li>Southside K-8 School<\/li>\n<li>Sandy River Middle School<\/li>\n<li>River View High School<\/li>\n<li>Mount View High School<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left has-text-color\" style=\"color:#006839\">Resources for McDowell County:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facesfrn.com\/Resource-Directory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">McDowell County Resource Directory<\/a> from McDowell County F.A.C.E.S (Families, Agencies, Children Enhancing Services)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvdhhr.org\/rfts\/files\/Resource_Guide_Relative_Kinship_Caregivers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">A Guide to Navigating Resources and Benefits for Relative\/Kinship Caregivers in West Virginia<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contact Your Healthy Grandfamilies County Coalition Coordinator Dr. Donald ReedMcDowell County Commission on Agingdonald@mcdowellcoa.org(304) 436-6588 Rebecca BrownChildren&#8217;s Home Societyrbrown@childhswv.org McDowell County is a Qualified Family Engagement County The WVSU Healthy Grandfamilies Program provides support, training, and resources to grandparents raising grandchildren to help them make decisions regarding educational choices that impact student learning and achievement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/healthygrandfamilies.com\/?page_id=516\" class=\"themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-516","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthygrandfamilies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthygrandfamilies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthygrandfamilies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthygrandfamilies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthygrandfamilies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/healthygrandfamilies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2623,"href":"https:\/\/healthygrandfamilies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/516\/revisions\/2623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthygrandfamilies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}