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April is Child Abuse Prevention Month and this is the perfect time to raise awareness to help prevent child abuse. This year’s child abuse prevention month’s theme is “Thriving Children and Families: Prevention With Purpose.” At JFS we are continually working to prevent child abuse.
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Dear Director, We welcomed our beautiful daughter into our home as a foster child when she was 3 months old, after her biological mother lost custody due to neglect. We adopted her when she was two. Now our daughter is in 3rd grade and she seems to be really struggling in school. Her attention span
One in ten children in foster care and adoption will be diagnosed with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. If you think about it, that is a huge number, and merely includes those who have been diagnosed. The topic of FASD is crucial because with the proper diagnoses you can markedly improve your child’s life. I have
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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder is a brain-based disability. Although you, as a parent, never want your child to have a disability, digging your head in the sand will do more harm then good. As parents, the most important gift you can give your child is to advocate for them. This means that if you wonder
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In approaching the Passover story with new perspectives, we can also find new meanings this year in the themes of subjugation, suffering, liberation and freedom that underpin the Passover narrative.
Passover, the Miracle of Adoption and Finding our Way to Freedom Read More »
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