Bay of Plenty grandparents raising their grandchildren are set for a $34,000 funding boost.
The funding from BayTrust was set to benefit local grandparents caring fulltime for their grandchildren amid warnings a generational crisis was looming.
More than 900 grandparents were now caring for approximately 1700 Bay of Plenty children who were no longer living with their parents.
Reasons for this came down to things like drug abuse, neglect, family violence and alcohol.
The Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Charitable Trust NZ will receive the funding to strengthen the support they offered in a number of different spots in the Bay.