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For years, Ethel Everett handled 30 to 35 homes at a time as a family resource worker with the Department of Children and Families in Springfield. Everett was the liaison between the department and the foster parents, there to help them navigate the system. But Everett said families could not …

Child Abuse Prevention Awareness Month officially has come and gone for the year, but the concentrated effort to support families and prevent child maltreatment in Fremont County continues to move full force ahead. Starpoint Fremont Family Resource Center recently was awarded a five-year grant that will fund the position of …

Print Email ELISHA FREEMAN REFLECTS ON TIME AT CHILDREN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER After a nearly 17 year run with the Children and Family Resource Center, Elisha Freeman is saying goodbye.  Freeman has held multiple positions since coming on board in 2002, working her way up from grant writer to executive …

Jennifer Davis retired from her position as executive director of the Hannah Pregnancy Resource Center Friday after 14 years with the organization. “This has never felt like a job, ever,” Davis said. “Our environment is a very loving environment … I’m going to miss it.” Many of Davis’ colleagues gathered …

Sunlight streams into the LGBT Resource Center, in its new fifth-floor suite at Bird Library, through several large windows overlooking the Syracuse University campus. The light washes over a rack of dresses, jackets and other fashion pieces in calm blues, deep purples and fiery r. Another rack filled with empty …

The Kentucky Department for Community Based Services (DCBS) has launched a new online resource to give support information to relative and fictive kin caregivers. The new Kinship Navigator Section on the KY FACES website (Kentucky Foster Adoptive Caregiver Exchange System) provides information and quick links to supportive services for relative …

For companies today, diversity and inclusion are often listed as top organizational priorities. It is great that more companies are investing in diversity and inclusion efforts, however many have yet to grasp the complexity and scale of the practices that should guide this focus. Efforts sometimes end up looking more …

April Sullivan was pleasantly surprised by an “I love you, Mom” text from her daughter last May, even though she knew the eighth-grader wasn’t supposed to be using her cellphone during school in Short Pump, Virginia. But she did not know that her child sent it while supposedly hiding from …

Life is full of surprises which certainly makes life more challenging. Unexpected pregnancy can be especially daunting for a young woman and a young man or for families already in crisis. The good news for these future parents is Hope House is available to assist them in all aspects of …