foster care

New Video: Child and Family Charities – Igniting Hope

At this year’s Child and Family Charities Igniting Hope Fundraising Breakfast, we told three stories from three different programs, Behavioral Health, Gateway Youth Services and Child Welfare. We follow the stories of Lisa, Raquell and Cynthia as they sought out the help of these services and how they were positively impacted.

For more information: https://www.childandfamily.org/

Lutheran Social Services of Michigan- Protect MIFamily

Michigan needs to invest existing federal resources in the most effective and innovative way possible. Protect MiFamily is designed to do just that by strengthening families and improving the lives of vulnerable children, with the aim of keeping families together.

The children involved in this project will be from birth to 5 years old and determined by Children’s Protective Services to be at high or intensive risk for future maltreatment. Families served also must live in one of the three pilot counties, where private agencies Lutheran Social Services of Michigan and Catholic Charities of West Michigan will partner with DHS in the new program. All three counties chosen have a higher than typical rate of children in that youngest age group being removed from their homes and placed into foster care.

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Lutheran Social Services of Michigan- Family Reunification Program

The Family Reunification Program offers four to a maximum of six months of services aimed at working with families in which one or more children have been placed in foster care. In order for a family to be an appropriate referral a plan must exists for the child(ren) to be reunified with the parent within 30 days of the referral to Family Reunification. The worker teams are available to the families 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The staff provides a therapeutic/skill-based intervention regimen to all family members

Lutheran Social Services of Michigan- Foster Camp Thank You

In conjunction with Living Water Ministries, Lutheran Social Services of Michigan provides a week of camp for foster kids and their sibling. Three of the kids wanted to say thanks for the opportunity.
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