Apr 4, 2022 | Announcements
Alana Dennis, MS, MT-BC, CCLS SFFC State Director for Ohio/Pennsylvania “Children don’t grow up in programs, they grow up in families and communities.” Urie Bronfenbrenner Every April, our nation observes National Child Abuse Prevention Month to raise public awareness...
Mar 4, 2022 | Announcements
by Russ Hightower, Kansas SFFC Chapter It started out as many intakes. Juana, a young 17-year-old high school student, was referred to us by a community resource partner. She was a mother to a precious 1-year-old, Natalia, and was about to have her second child. A...
Feb 2, 2022 | Announcements
Written by Laura Rasche What seemed like a fast transition of me stepping in as Director of the Central Indiana chapter of Safe Families in May of 2021 had actually been a work in progress for nearly nine years. In the summer of 2012, my own children Nettie ( 5) and...
Jan 6, 2022 | Announcements
Elizabeth Beseke, Minnesota State Director When I heard the statement, “Trauma blocks love but love heals trauma” by Frank Anderson, a conversation quickly flashed in my mind. I remember it well. My Family Coach and I were sitting in a coffee shop with mom sharing how...
Dec 6, 2021 | Announcements
“Praise be to God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.”2 Corinthians 1:3-5...
Nov 9, 2021 | Announcements
We believe there are three core values that are important for Safe Families to live out. Radical hospitality is the idea we love strangers by opening our lives and by inviting them into our homes to live and fellowship with us. By caring for children in our homes and...
