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Impact StoriesLocal Program Issues ‘Community Challenge’
LaGRANGE — Members of the Safe Families for Children are issuing a challenge to the community in the hopes of finding more host families and churches for children in temporary need of homes. Team members launched a 100 day challenge at the beginning of June. Safe...
Sir Peter Vardy Comments on David Cameron’s New Adoption Policy
Sir Peter Vardy, founder of Safe Families for Children UK, which works with councils in Greater Manchester, has urged David Cameron to concentrate on early intervention for children at risk of being taken into care after the Prime Minister vowed to show “zero...
Charity Safe Families for Children UK Announces Partnership with Southampton to See Volunteers Working with Families and Children
VOLUNTEERS will help Southampton City Council to help struggling families in the city. Charity Safe Families for Children UK has announced a new partnership which will see its volunteers working with families and children in the city. The move comes with the council...
Faithful Ambition: National Networks Tap Congregations for Child Welfare Permanency, Preservation
When Chelsea Geyer heads to the front of a congregation to sell them on helping Washington, D.C.’s child welfare system, the 27-year-old co-founder of DC127 comes with a two-pronged sales pitch that meshes the Good Book with the modern city. “I make the argument that...
Foster Care Alternative Awaiting Governor’s Signature
JACKSON, MS (Mississippi News Now) - Mississippi is working to improve the foster care system. Meanwhile, the legislature passed a community-based alternative to the system. It's not intended to fix all the problems but rather alleviate some of the load. Some say...
Preventing Child Neglect through Social Networks
Foster care in Alaska is the state’s last resort for helping kids who have been abused or neglected—and the number of kids in the system is at a record high. Nearly 3,000 kids are in out of home care. One foster care worker says part of the solution is in prevention –...
This Local Charity is Helping to Alleviate Increasing Demand on Foster Care Services in Southwest Florida
It’s all too fitting and tragic that during the month of April, which is Child Abuse Prevention Month, a recent news story on NBC 2 out of Southwest Florida highlighted an alarming situation struggling local families were already far too familiar with: the rise of...
Life with Gracie: ‘We were already kinda in crazy, what’s one more’
The house on Montcliff Drive is unusually quiet now. Four of Tiffany Taulbee’s children are away at school. Only Maddox, her 2-year-old, remains, playing on her lap. In just a few hours, the kitchen will be a den of energy, homework and after-school snacks again but...
Charity hopes to recruit army of 100,000 volunteers to keep children out of care
A CHARITY has revealed plans to recruit an army of 100,000 volunteers to help children who needlessly go into care. Durham-based Safe Families For Children UK, founded by philanthropist and entrepreneur Sir Peter Vardy, offers a network of helpers for families in...
Safe Families for Children finds first volunteer families, looks for more participants
A program launched by local churches like Genesis of Petoskey, Community Reformed Church of Charlevoix, and Petoskey Church of Christ, is designed to be an in-between for a family that may need additional support. The organization helps a family in crisis by taking...
Alaskans can do much to protect our children, and that’s more than a platitude
Much attention is being paid to the state's fiscal challenges, as it should be. Although we as community members can play an active role in promoting solutions and communicating with our legislators, the decisions are largely out of our control. There is, however, a...
A real chance to help
Parents of children at risk of being removed from their home by the state gained an ally in Yamhill County last summer with the opening of the Safe Families for Children program. The program was begun by A Family Place, which runs relief nurseries in McMinnville and...
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