'At the same time, my husband was also very sick,' she said. 'And not long after we started raising the kids, my daughter Rebecca lost her battle with addiction and about 11 months later, my husband died.'
"At the same time, my husband was also very sick," she said."And not long after we started raising the kids, my daughter Rebecca lost her battle with addiction and about 11 months later, my husband died.""My husband was my left hand and my right arm," she said."He was my go-to guy for everything and here I was, I have to make all these decisions not just about kids but about life.
During her search for support services and several social workers later, she met Krysti Hesse. Hesse is a social worker for Marana Unified School District and after conversations with Harris, she noticed a need for kinship support in the Marana area. "Sometimes they feel isolated and they feel like they are the only ones doing this but I know that they aren’t because I was seeing more and more of them," Hesse said."And so I wanted them to know that there were other people out there like them and the resources."
So just before the pandemic began, she started the Kinship Support Group at Marana Unified School District, but it's open for anyone in the area to join. The group meets once a month on Zoom but soon will transition back to in-person."Even though logically I’m know I'm not alone but it helps to actually have those five or six people around you to make you feel less alone," Harris said.
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